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The Ordo for the Coronation of King Roger II of Sicily: An Example of Dating from Internal Evidence

Reinhard Elze

Although the edition of an ordo may appear out of place in a collection of papers analyzing rituals, I believe that the present publication can elucidate two very important matters in regard to the study of coronation ordines. The ordo for the coronation of King Roger II of Sicily demonstrates better than any other often-copied—and for centuries unchanged—liturgical document that first, occasionally an ordo can be precisely dated and, second, that changes necessitated by a definite occasion were not as systematically and consistently introduced as the modern historian would like. Both lessons may be of value for future studies of rituals and of their literary reflections in ordines and elsewhere.

The Manuscripts

Jacob Schwalm,^[1] the first historian who took notice of this text and presented a partial edition, knew of only one manuscript: C : Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, Cod. 614, a pontifical compiled around 1200 A.D., written in Beneventan script coming from the Cathedral Library of Benevento. Our ordo is on ff 22r–30r; on ff 30r–33v it has Ista est ordinatio de sollempnitate coronationis regis^[2] and on ff 33v–36v the text Incipit ordo ad reginam noviter benedicendam .^[3] On fol. 36v there is a Missa pro imperatore^[4] seemingly left over from an Ordo romanus ad benedicendum imperatorem included in the register of the manuscript, but later canceled.^[5]

In my first article on this ordo^[6] I was able to point to three additional manuscripts that might be useful in preparating a text. These are:

1. V : Rome, Bibl. Apost. Vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 6748 saec. XIII; a pontifical from Monreale.^[7] Our ordo is on ff 103v–111v, followed on ff 111v–112v, 112v–114r, and 114r–115v by the ordines nos. I, II, and III for the coronation of the emperor and the empress.^[8]

2. S : ibid., Cod. Vat. lat. 4746 saec. XIII; a pontifical coming from Syracuse;^[9] Our ordo is on ff 17v–22r, followed by OCI III on ff 22r–22v.

3. M : Madrid, Bibl. Nacional, Cod. 678, saec. SIV; a pontifical from Messina.^[10] Our ordo is written on ff 130v–141r, followed by the three imperial coronation ordines [OCI I–III] on 141r–146r.

I inspected the Roman codices in the Vatican Library and received microfilms of the manuscript in the Madrid National Library. All these liturgical collections are based on the tenth-century Roman-German Pontifical,^[11] which from the eleventh century onward was considered the Roman pontifical par excellence (henceforth: PRG). It was later in part replaced by the "Roman Pontifical of the Twelfth Century".^[12] As far as the Norman kingdom of Sicily is concerned, it seems that the former was regarded as the authoritative Roman pontifical. Our ordo and the imperial ordines that follow it in three manuscripts are derived from that version of the PRG which we find, for example, in the Monte Cassino Cod. 451 (C ) or in the Cod. Valicellianus D5 (D ), both compiled in Beneventan script in the eleventh century. Here we are concerned only with the coronation ordo for Roger II (1130).

The Ordo

The four manuscripts listed above in which this version of the Ordo ad regem benedicendum is included are the only ones from Sicily that contain such an ordo. Two of them have maintained the original disposition of the coronation ordines of the PRG: the one for a royal coronation is followed by two imperial ones and one for the queen or empress, that is, PRG LXII–LXVIII, the German ordo, and OCI I–III. Ms. C , retaining from the imperial ordines only the old coronation mass of the emperor, contains the ordo for the queen or empress in a changed form,^[13] preceded by an ordo for the festive crown-wearings (Festkrönungen).^[14] The Syracuse pontifical refers only to king and queen and does not have anything on the emperor or empress. The other parts of the four manuscripts, not examined at this time, follow more or less the model of the PRG.

I have no doubts that the four manuscripts of our ordo derive from a single model and the changes introduced can be explained only by the particular historical situation in 1130. Three major modifications point to this historical conjunction. First, in chapter 21 (of the present edition, which corresponds to the PRG count) the text Postea sceptrum et baculum accipiat . . . was changed to Postea septrum et regnum accipiat . The scepter and the staff were thus replaced by scepter and orb. While this change is not exactly borne out by the rather general references in narrative sources to the coronation on Christmas Day 1130, it accords nicely with the Sicilian ordo for crown-wearing (see above), which was probably composed during the reign of Roger II. Second,

two of the prescriptions of the ordo in the PRG regarding the heredity of the throne were altered; a third was not. In cap. 7 we read: Vis regnum tibi a deo concessum iustitia regere . . . , while the original had after concessum the words: secundum iustitiam patrum tuorum . In cap. 25 the formula of the model Sta et retine amodo locum quem hucusque paterna successione tenuisti hereditario iure tibi delegatum per autoritatem dei omnipotentis was cut to Sta et retine amodo locum tibi delegatum per autoritatem dei . . . . It is evident, therefore, that the father of the person to be crowned according to this ordo was not the king. Yet the person who rewrote the text may not have been in principle against hereditary succession, since in cap. 14 the words Reges de lumbris eius egrediantur regnum hoc regere totum were not changed.

The first change, the replacement of the staff with the globe points to Norman Sicily, where we know that these were the insignia of rulership. The second set of changes suggests that the coronation for which this text was conceived was none other than that Roger II, who was the first Norman king of the kingdom. This assumption is also confirmed by the third change in the text common to all manuscripts: in cap. 13 the passage ut sis benedictus et constitutus rex in regno tuo has been abbreviated to ut sis benedictus et constitutus rex . Roges had just become king, but up to that moment he was not in possession of a regnum in the strict sense of the word.

We can omit the discussion of other, rather slight, variations in this ordo vis-à-vis its model in the PRG, since they do not appear to have any relevance for the coronation of Roger II nor for any analysis of political ideas prevalent in the Norman kingdom of Sicily.

In studies of ordines one of the major problems is always the dating of the text. Here we have one of the rare occasions when this questions can be easily resolved. I believe the arguments sketched above make it clear that this ordo can be linked unequivocally to the coronation of Roger II on Christmas Day 1130 A.D. It was this text that contemporaries saw as the valid ordo Romanus . Having inserted some minor ad hoc changes, necessitated by the given conditions—different insignia, new dynasty—they were convinced they had compiled an authoritative version. Whatever was not changed from the tenth-century model (and its eighth-century original) can be interpreted in two ways: either the redactor of 1130 accepted it, or, even if he held it for outdated, he did not find it important enough to alter the text. This, of course, places the historian in a quandary: it is easy to interpret textual changes if found, but much less easy to explain passages which, though obviously obsolete, were not changed sometimes for centuries. The attentive reader of this corrected ordo will find, for example, in paragraph 11 that the new king is supposed to ascend the throne of his father (ad paternum decenter solium . . . conscendere mereatur). This passage, however inappropriate for the occasion, was not altered, just as the one on the emperor's duty of the governance of the church (ad regendum Ecclesiam) was not changed in the

imperial coronation ordines (ordo XXXIX in the MGH edition) after the Investiture Contest, down to 1530.^[15]

The Edition

I promised some time ago to prepare a critical edition of three ordines that came down to us from the kingdom of Roger II in Sicily. But then I postponed this task, for I was convinced that the editio minor published with my brief comments^[16] would suffice as a source for the history of the new Sicilian kingdom. In those times there were hardly any historians around who would have cared much for coronation ordines. Those who wrote about medieval Festkrönungen overlooked the one from the regnum Siciliae or did not regard it important enought to comment upon. The least "peculiar" of the three ordines that I have presented over ten years ago deserves, however, a proper edition, which I now offer in the appendix that follows.

A comparison of our text with the PRG can be made by any reader; in the notes there^[17] and in the ones added to our text (below) one will also find the immediate models for the text.

I am following the ms. C , with the exception of chapters 31 and 33–35, for which I took the text for V and M . In the few cases in which C differs from the other three or in which two codices do not concord with C and with another codex among the three, I have chosen those variants that seem to me the most "Sicilian."^[18] Orthographic variants and scribal errors have not been considered.

Appendix

Incipit Ordo Ad Regem^a Benedicendum, Quando Novus A Clero Et Populo Sublimatur^b In Regnum.

1. Primum^a exeunte illo thalamum unus episcoporum dicat^b orationem:

Omnipotens sempiterne deus, qui famulum tuum N. regni fastigio dignatus es sublimare, tribue ei, quesumus, ut ita in huius saeculi cursu cunctorum in commune salutem disponat, quatenus a tue veritatis tramite non recedat. Per.

2. Postea suscipiant illum duo episcopi dextra levaque honorifice parati habentes sanctorum reliquias collo pendentes, ceteri^a autem clerici sint casulis adonati, precedentes^a cum sancto^b evangelio et duabus crucibus cum incenso boni odoris ducant illum ad ecclesiam canentes responsorium^c :

Ecce mitto angelum meum. Vers.: Israel si me audieris , cuncto eum vulgo sequente ad^d hostium ecclesie.

3. Clerus^a subsistat et archiepiscopus dicat hanc^b orationem:

Deus, qui scis genus humanum nulla virtute posse subsistere, concede propitius, ut famulus tuus^cquem populo tuo voluisti preferri ita tuo fulciatur adiutorio, quatenus quibus potuit preesse valeat et prodesse. Per.

4. Introeuntes autem precedentes^a clerici decantent^b : Domine salvum fac regem , usque introitum^c chori.

5. Tunc episcopus metropolitanus dicat^a hanc sequentem orationem:

Omnipotens sempiterne deus, celestium terrestriumque moderator, qui famulum tuum N. ad regni fastigium dignatus es provehere, concede, quesumus, ut a cunctis adversitatibus liberatus et ecclesiatice pacis^cdono muniatur et ad eterne pacis gaudia te donante pervenire mereatur. Per.

6. Ibi autem ante chorum designatus rex pallium et arma deponat atque inter manus episcoporum perductus in chorum usque ad altaris gradus incedat, cunctoque pavimento tapetibus^a et palliolis contecto, ibi humiliter totus in cruce prostratus iaceat una cum episcopis et presbyteris psallentibus letaniam^b , duodecim apostolos^c ac totidem martyres, confessores et virgines. Et inter cetera inferenda sunt ista:

Ut ^dhunc famulum tuum N. in regem eligere digneris. Te rogamus.

Ut eum benedicere et sublimare digneris. Te rogamus.

Ut eum ad imperii fastigium perducere digneris. Te rogamus.

7. Sublimatus autem princeps interrogetur ab episcopo metropolitano^a :

Vis sanctam fidem a^bcatholicis viris tibi traditam tenere et operibus observare? ^c Resp. Volo.

Int. Vis sanctis ecclesiis ecclesiarumque ministris tutor ac defensor esse? Resp. Volo.

Int. Vis regnum tibi a deo concessum^d iusticia regere et defendere? Resp. Volo, et in quantum divino fultus adiutorio ac solacio omnium sanctorum^e valuero, ita me per omnia fideliter acturum promitto.

8. Deinde ipse domnus metropolitanus affatur populum his^a verbis:

Tali principi ac rectori vos subicere ipsiusque regnum firmare, firma fide stabilire atque iussionibus illius obtemperare debetis iuxta apostolum: Omnis anima potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit regi quasi precellenti:

9. Tunc ergo a^a circumstante clero et populo unanimiter dicatur^b :

Fiat. Fiat. Amen.^c

10. Postea vero, eo devote inclinato, dicatur ab uno episcopo^a oratio^b :

Benedic, domine, hunc regem nostrum, qui regna omnium moderaris a seculo, et tali eum benedictione glorifica, ut davitice teneat sublimitatis sceptrum et glorificatus in eius protinus reperiatur merito. Da ei, te inspirante^c, cum mansuetudine ita regere populum, sicut Salomonem fecisti regnum optinere pacificum. Tibi semper cum timore sit subditus,

tibique militet cum quiete. Sit tuo clipeo protectus cum proceribus, et ubique tua gratia victor existat. Honorifica eum pre cunctis regibus gentium. Felix populis dominetur, et feliciter eum naciones adornent. Vivat inter gencium catervas magnanimus. Sit individue equitatis singularis protector. Locupletet eum tua previdens^ddextera. Frugiferam optineat patriam, et eius liberis tribuas^eprofuturam. Presta ei prolixitatem vite per tempora, et in diebus eius oriatur iusticia et eterno glorietur in regno. Per.^f

11. Oratio^a :

Omnipotens eterne deus, creator omnium, imperator angelorum, rex^bregnancium dominusque dominancium, qui Abraham fidelem famulum tuum de hostibus triumphare fecisti, Moysi et Iosue populo prelatis multiplicem victoriam tribuisti, humilemque David puerum tuum regni fastigio sublimasti, et Salomonem sapiencie pacisque ineffabili munere ditasti, repice, quesumus, ad preces humilitatis nostre, et super hunc famulum tuum N.^cquem supplici devotione in regem eligimus benedictionum tuarum dona multiplica, eumque dextere tue potentia^dsemper ubique circumda, quatenus predicti Abrahe fidelitate firmatus, Moysi mansuetudine fretus, Iosue fortitudine munitus, Salomonis sapiencia decoratus, tibi in omnibus placeat, et per tramitem iusticie inoffenso gressu semper incedat, ecclesiamque tuam deinceps cum plebibus sibi annexis ita enutriat ac doceat, muniat et instruat, contraque^evisibiles et invisibiles hostes^feiusdem potenter regaliterque tue virtutis regimen administret, et ad vere^gfidei pacisque concordiam eorum animos, te opitulante, reformet ^h, ut horum populorum debita subiectione fultus, cum digno amore glorificatus, ad paternum decenter solium tua miseracione conscendere mereatur. The quoque proteccionis galea munitus, et scuto insuperabili iugiter protectus, armisque celestibus circumdautus, optabilis victorie triumphum feliciter capiat, terroremque sue potencie infidelibus inferat, et pacem tibi militantibus letanter reportet. Per dominum nostrum qui virtute sancte crucis tartara destruxit, regnoque diaboli superato ad celos victor ascendit, in quo potestas omnisque regni consistit victoria, qui est gloriaⁱhumilium et vita salusque populorum. Qui tecum.

12. Deinde ab altero episcopo dicatur hec oratio:

Deus inenarrabilis auctor mundi, conditior humani^ageneris, gubernator imperii, qui ex utero fidelis amici tui patriarche nostri Abrahe preelegisti reges seculi profuturos, tu presentem regem hunc^bcum exercitu suo per intercessionem omnium sanctorum uberi benedictione locupleta et in solium regni firma stabilitate conecte. Visita eum sicut Moysen in rubo, Iesu Nave in prelio, Gedeon in agro, Samuelem in templo, et illa eum benedictione syderea ac sapiencie tue rore perfunde, quam beatus David in psalterio Salomonem filium eius te remunerante percepisse decantat e celo. Sis ei contra acies inimicorum lorica, in adversis galea, in prosperis paciencia, in proteccione clipeus sempiternus, et presta, ut gentes illi teneant fidem, proceres sui habeant pacem, diligant caritatem, abstineant^cse a

cupiditate, loquantur iustituam, custodiant veritatem.^cEt ita populus iste sub eius imperio pullulet coalitus benedictione eternitatis, ut semper maneant tripudiantes in pace atque victores. Quod ipse.

13. Tunc ab episcopo metropolitano ungantur^a manus de oleo sanctificato:

Unguantur manus iste de oleo sanctificato^b, unde uncti fuerunt reges et prophete, et sicut unxit Samuel David in regem, ut sis benedictus et constitutus rex super populum istum quem dominus deus tuus^cdedit tibi ad regendum et^d gubernandum. Quod ipse.

14. Sequitur^a oratio:

Respice, omnipotens deus, hunc gloriosum regem N. a^bserenis obtutibus, et sicut benedixisti Abraham, Ysaac et Iacob, sic illum largis benediccionibus spiritualis^cgracie cum omni plenitudine tue potencie irrigare atque perfundere dignare.^d Habundanciam frumenti, vini et olei, et omnium frugum opulenciam, ex largitate divini muneris longa per tempora tribue, ut illo regnante sit sanitas corporum in patria, et pax inviolata sit in regno, et dignitas gloriosa regalis palacii, maximo^esplendore regie potestatis oculis omnium fulgeat, luce clarissima clarescat, atque splendere^fquasi splendidissima fulgura, maximo perfusa lumine, videatur. Tribue ei, omnipotens deus, ut sit fortissimus protector patrie et consolator^gecclesiarum atque cenobiorum sanctorum, maxime cum pietate regalis munificentie, atque ut sit^hfortissimus regum, triumphator hostium, ad opprimendas rebelles et paganas naciones. Sitque suis inimicis satisⁱterribilis, pre maxima fortitudine regalis potencie, optimatibus quoque ac precelsis proceribus ^kac fidelibus sui regni sit magnificus et amabilis et pius, ut ab omnibus timeatur atque diligatur. Reges quoque de lumbis eius per successiones temporum futurorum egrediantur regnum hoc regere totum, et post gloriosa tempora atque felicia presentis vite gaudia sempiterna in perpetua beatitudine habere mereatur.^lQuod ipse.

15. Postea ab^a episcopo metropolitano unguantur^b de oleo sanctificato caput pectus scapule ambeque compages brachiorum^c :

Ungo te in regem de oleo sanctificato. In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti. Amen.

16. Spiritus^asancti gratia humilitati nostre officio in te copiosa^bdescendat, ut sicut manibus nostris indignis oleo materiali pinguescis exterius oblitus, ita eius invisibili unguedine delibutus impinguari merearis interius, eiusque spirituali^c unccione perfectissime semper imbutus et inlicita declinare tota mente et spernere discas et utilia anime tue iugiter^dcogitare optare atque operari queas. Auxiliante domino nostro Iesu Christo, qui cum^e deo.

17. Deinde^a dicatur hec oracio:

Deus qui es iustorum gloria et misericordia peccatorum, qui misisti filium tuum preciosissimo sanguine suo genus humanum redimere, qui conteris^b bella et propugnator es in te sperancium, et sub cuius arbitrio omnium regnorum continetur potestas, te humiliter deprecamur, ut presentem famulum tuum N. in tua misericordia confidentem in presenti^csede regali benedicas eique propicius adesse digneris, ut qui tua expetit proteccione defendi omnibus sit hostibus fortior. Fac eum, domine, beatum esse et victorem de inimicis suis. Corona eum corona iusticie et pietatis, ut ex toto corde et ex tota mente in te credens tibi deserviat^d, sanctam tuam ecclesiam defendat et sublimet, populumque^ea te sibi commissum iuste regat; nullis insidiantibus malis eum in ^finiusticiam^g vertat. Accende, domine, cor eius ad amorem gracie tue^hper hoc unccionis oleum, unde unxisti sacerdotes, reges et prophetas, quatinus iusticiam diligens perⁱtramitem familiariter iusticie populum ducens postⁱperacta^ka te disposita in regna excellencia annorum curricula pervenire ad eterna gaudia mereatur. Per eundem.

18. Alia^a :

Deus, dei filius, Iesus Christus, dominus noster, qui a patre oleo exultacionis unctus est pre participibus suis, ipse per presentem sacre^b unguedinis infusionem spiritus paracliti super caput tuum infundat benediccionem eademque usque ad interiora cordis tui penetrare faciat, quatenus hoc visibili et tractabili dono invisibilia percipere et temporali regno iustis moderaminibus exsecuto eternaliter cum eo regnare merearis. Qui solus sine peccato rex regum vivit et gloriatur cum deo patre in unitate.

19. Postea^a ab episcopis ensem accipiat et cum ense totum sibi regnum fideliter ad regendum secundum supradicta verba sciat esse commendatum dicente metropolitano:

Accipe gladium per manus episcoporum licet indignas vice tamen et auctoritate sanctorum apostolorum consecratas tibi regaliter impositum nostreque benediccionis officio in defensionem sancte dei ecclesie divinitus ordinatum. Et esto memor de quo psalmista^bdicit: Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum, potentissime, ut in^choc per eundem vim equitatis exerceas, molem iniquitatis potenter ^ddestruas et sanctam dei ecclesiam eiusque fideles propugnes atque protegas, nec minus sub fide falsos quam christiani nominis hostes execres ac destruas, viduas et pupillos clementer adiuves ac defendas, desolata restaures, restaurata conserves, ulciscaris iniusta, confirmes bene disposita, quatenus hec in^eagendo virtutum triumpho gloriosus iusticieque cultor egregius cum mundi salvatore, cuius tipum geris in nomine, sine fine merearis regnare. Qui cum .^f

20. Accinctus autem ense similiter ab illis armillas et pallium et anulum accipiat dicente metropolitano:

Accipe regie dignitatis anulum et per hunc in te catholice fidei cognosce signaculum, quia ut hodie ordinaris caput et princeps regni ac populi, ita perseverabis^aauctor ac stabilitor christianitatis et christiane fidei, ut felix in opere, locuplex^bin fide cum rege regum glorieris. Per eundem qui ^cest honor.

21. Postea sceptrum et^a regnum accipiat dicente sibi ordinatore:

Accipe virgam virtutis atque equitatis qua intelligas mulcere pios et^bterrere reprobos, errantibus viam pandere, lapsis manum porrigere, disperdasque superbos et^creleves^dhumiles, et aperiat tibi hostium Iesus Christus, dominus noster, qui de se ipso ait: Ego sum hostium, per me si quis introierit, salvabitur; et ipse, qui est clavis David et sceptrum domus Israel, qui aperit et nemo claudit, claudit et nemo aperit. Sitque tibi auctor, qui educit vinctum de domo carceris, et umbra mortis, et in omnibus sequi merearis eum, de quo David propheta cecinit: Sedes tua, deus, in seculum seculi, virga equitatis virga regni tui. Et imitando ipsum^ediligas iusticiam et hodio habeas iniquitatem, quia propterea unxit te deus deus tuus ad exemplum illius quem ante secula unxerat oleo exultacionis pre participibus suis, Iesum Christum dominum nostrum.

22. Postea metropolitanus reverenter coronam capiti regis imponat dicens:

Accipe coronam regni que licet ab indignis, episcoporum tamen manibus capiti tuo umponitur quamque sanctitatis gloriam et honorem et opus fortitudinis expresse signare intelligas, et per hanc te participem ministerii nostri non ignores, ita ut, sicut nos in interioribus pastores rectoresque animarum intelligimur, tu quoque in exterioribus verus dei cultor strenuusque contra omnes adversitates ecclesie defensor regnique a deo tibi dati^a et per officium nostre benedictionis in vice apostolorum omniumque sanctorum tuo regimini commissi utilis executor regnatorque proficuus semper appareas, ut inter gloriosos adletas virtutum gemmis ornatus et premio sempiterne felicitatis coronatus cum redemptore ac salvatore Iesu Christo cuius nomen vicemque gestare crederis sine fine glorieris. Qui vivit et imperat deus cum deo patre in unitate.

23. Et ab eo statim dicatur benediccio super eum, que et tempore synodi super regem dicenda est^a :

Benedicat tibi deus^bcustodiatque te et, sicut te voluit super populum suum esse regem, ita in presenti seculo felicem et eterne felicitatis tribuat esse consortem. Amen.^c

Clerum ac populum, quem sua voluit opitulatione in tua sanccione congregari, sua dispensacione et tua amministracione per diuturna tempora faciat feliciter grubernari. Amen.^c

Quatenus divinis monitis parentes, adversitatibus carentes, bonis omnibus exuberantes, tuo imperio fideli amore obsequentes^d, et in presenti seculo tranquillitate fruantur, et tecum eternorum civium consorcio potiri mereantur. Amen.^c

Quod ipse prestare.

24. Deinde coronatus honorifice per chorum ducatur de altari ab episcopis usque ad solium canente clero^a reponsorium^b : Desiderium anime eius.^c

25. Deinde dicat^a sibi metropolitanus:

Sta^bet retine amodo locum, tibi delegatum per auctoritatem dei omnipotentis et presentem tradicionem nostram, omnium scilicet episcoporum ceterorumque dei servorum. Et quanto clerum sacris altaribus propinquiorem perpicis^c, tanto ei^dpociorem in locis congruis honorem impendere memineris, quatinus mediator dei et hominum te mediatorem cleri ^eet plebis permanere faciat.

Hoc in loco sedere eum faciat domnus metropolitanus super sedem dicendot:

In hoc regni solio confirment ^get in regno eterno secum regnare faciat Iesus Christus^hdominus noster rex regum etⁱdominus dominancium. Qui cum deo patre et spiritu sancto.

26. Tunc det illis^a oscula^b pacis.

27. Cunctus autem cetus clericorum tali rectore gratulans sonantibus hymnis alta voce concinat: Te deum laudamus.

28. Tunc metropolitanus^a missam celebret^b plena processione.

29. Sequitur ordo missarum, si in feria evenerit, sed melius et honorabilius die dominico. Oracio:

Deus qui miro ordine universa disponis et ineffabiliter gubernas, presta, quesumus, ut famulus tuus rex N. hec in huius seculi cursu implenda decernat, unde tibi in perpetuum placere valeat.^aPer.

30. Secreta:

Concede, quesumus, omnipotens dues, in salutaribus sacrificiis placatus, ut famulus tuus N. ad peragendum regalis dignitatis officium inveniatur semper idoneus et celesti patrie reddatur acceptus. Per.

31. Benedictio pontificis:

Omnipotens deus, qui te populi sui voluit esse rectorem, ipse celesti benedictione sanctificans eterni regni faciat esse consortem. Amen.

Concedatque tibi contra omnes fidei christiane hostes visibiles victoriam triumphalem et pacis equitatisque ecclesiastice felicissimum te fieri longe lateque fundatorem. Amen.

Quatenus, te gubernacula regni tenente, populus tibi subiectus christiane religionis

curam custodiens undique tutus pace tranquilla perfruatur et te in concilio regum beatorum collocato eterna felicitate ibidem tecum pariter gaudere mereatur. Amen.

Quod ipse.

32. Ad complendum^a :

Hec^b, domine, salutaris sacrificii percepcio ^cfamuli tui N. peccatorum maculas diluat^det ad regendum secundum tuam voluntatem populum idoneum illum ^ereddat, ut^f hoc salutari misterio contra visibiles atque^ginvisibiles hostes reddatur invictus, per quod mundus est divina dispensacione redemptus. Per.

33. Alia missa:

Deus cuius regnum est omnium seculorum, supplicationes nostras clementer exaudi et christianissimi regis nostri protege principatum, ut in tua virtute confidens et tibi placeat et super omnia regna precellat. Per.

34. Secreta^a :

Sacrificiis, domine, placatus oblatis pacem tuam nostris temporibus clementer indulge. Per. ^b

35. Ad complendum:

Deus qui diligentibus te facis cuncta prodesse, da cordi regis nostri inviolabilem caritatis affectum, ut desideria de tua inspiracione concepta nulla possint temptacione mutari. Per.

Concordance:

1 = PRG LXXII 1, Sp 2393.
2 = PRG LXXII 2; cf. R.-J. Hesbert, Corpus Antiphonalium Officii 4 (1970).
3 = PRG LXXII 3, Sp 1276.
4 = PRG LXXII 4, cf. Ps. 19, 10.
5 = PRG LXXII 5, Sp 1275.
6 = PRG LXXII 6 (codd. CDRTV).
7 = PRG LXXII 7 (codd. CDV).
8 = PRG LXXII 8 (codd. CDRTV).
9 = PRG LXXII 9.
10 = PRG LXXII 10; GeA 2317.
11 = PRG LXXII 11.
12 = PRG LXXII 12; G 2029; KO 188.
13 = PRG LXXII 13 (codd. CDV).
14 = PRG LXXII 14 (codd. CDRTV); KO 191.

15 = PRG LXXII 15 (codd. CDV).
16 = PRG LXXII 16 (codd. CDRTV); KO 191.
17 = PRG LXXII 17 (codd. CDRTV); KO 189.
18 = PRG LXXII 18; KO 188.
19 = PRG LXXII 19; KO 187.
20 = PRG LXXII 20; KO 187.
21 = PRG LXXII 21; KO 187.
22 = PRG LXXII 22.
23 = PRG LXXII 23; Moeller, Corpus ben. pont. No. 143 (vol. 1, p. 62f).
24 = PRG LXXII 24 (codd. CDRTV); cf. Hesbert, Corpus , 4 p. 106, no. 6412.
25 = PRG LXXII 25.
26 = PRG LXXII 26.
27 = PRG LXXII 27.
28 = PRG LXXII 28.
29 = PRG LXXIII 1, Sp 1277.
30 = PRG LXXIII 2, Sp 1278.
31 = PRG LXXIII 3; Moeller, Corpus no. 1667 (vol. 2, p. 682f).
32 = PRG LXXIII 4, Sp 1279.
33 = PRG LXXIV 1; V 2745, Sp 1331.
34 = PRG LXXIV 2; V 1395; G 918, 2713, Sp 1350.