1 DB: This is an instance when pre- is spelt out. It is notable because of this scribe’s otherwise
frequent use of ‘tailed e’. See the editorial principles for further
discussion.
Notes
1 DB: Episcopum (‘bishop’) has been omitted, or is taken to be understood:
CM (ed. Mommsen, §274) includes ‘bishop’ (Iacobum fratrem Domini Hierosolimis ordinant
episcopum).
2 DB: Uas electionis (Christ’s ‘chosen instrument’) derives
ultimately from Acts 9:15: Dixit autem ad eum Dominus: Uade,
quoniam uas electionis est mihi iste, ut portet nomen meum coram gentibus,
et regibus, et filiis Israel, ‘Then the Lord said to him [Ananias]: Go,
for this one is an instrument chosen by me to convey my name before nations and
kings and the sons of Israel’: http://www.sacredbible.org/studybible/NT-05_Acts.htm#9, [accessed 17 April
2023]. It would have been well known as a phrase applied to St Paul in
particular (for example, in chants on his feast day or the feast of his
conversion: this accounts for nearly all the 49 examples listed in the Cantus
Index (Online Catalogue for Mass and Office Chants), searching ‘vas electionis’: https://cantusindex.org/ [accessed 16 May 2023].