Note 220 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)
Reading edition
Text in Coussemaker, 49, and Danjou, Revue de la Musique religieuse, iv. (1848), 65. Cf. Sepet, xxviii. 232, and on the MS., vol. i. p. 284. As in the Beauvais Officium Circumcisionis, there are many processional chants or conductus, in one of which are the terms ‘celebremus Natalis solempnia’ and ‘in hoc Natalitio’ which attach the play to Christmas, or at least the Christmas season. The text begins ‘Incipit Danielis ludus,’ and ends with the Te Deum. The following quatrain serves as prologue:
‘Ad honorem tui, Christe, Danielis ludus iste in Belvaco est inventus et invenit hunc iuventus.’
Meyer, 56, finds relations between the Beauvais Daniel and that of Hilarius.