A very rare prose whose presence could only be attested in three other manuscript sources: the Breviary of Lugo, the closely connected Breviario de Miranda (Compostela) and in Vatican City, Bibl. Ap. Vat., Reg. Lat. 586 f. 70v-71r. There are variants in the fragment relative to Compostela/Vat. 586: 'Deptena' for 'Septena', 'ginante' for 'stemata'.
In Reg. Lat. 586 (from the Lorsch Abbey) the previous responsory and prose have different wordings adapted to saint Nicholas and are respectively notated in staffless Aquitanian and alphabetical notation. As this source has been tentatively dated to the mid-11th c. but the musical contents corresponds to later additions, further study would be needed to securely ground the actual direction of influence, whether from the office for Iacobus to Nicholas, or the opposite.
Corde te pie parilis sub vocis
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Corde te pie parilis sub vocis carmine | O tutor patrie devote tue familie | Nos eripe [a fraude et clade demonis sive sevicie | Et] retunde penetrare dire lustrantis morsus invidie | Septena quin rabie cernuos amove | Sep[tu]plicique forme reple carismate | O flos florigere sedis elisie | Lucis luciflue cuncte que stemate | Caterve iam angelice | Constipate munimine | Felice glorie prope requie | Plebem concinere concino pectore sereno.
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