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legit, debit remanere in sola Alba : Similiter qui tertiam legit, faciat, excepto 

 Abbate, qui debet legere in cappa. Tertium vero Eesponsorium cantent tres 

 Cantores in cappis, quoi-um duo incensent Altare, ut supra scriptum est. ]^ . Dumn, 

 transissent, quod post Gloria Patri reincipiendum est. Interim duo Sacerdotes 

 se cappis induunt summentes duo thuribula, & humeraria in capita ponent, 

 intrantes chorum, paulatim euntes versus sepulchrum, voce mediocri cantantes, 

 Quis revolvet nobis lapidem. Quos Diaconus, qui debet esse retro sepulchrum, 

 interroget psallendo. Quern quceritis, deinde illi, lesuin Nazarenum. Quibus 

 Diaconus respondet, Non est hie, mox incensent sepulcbrum,^ & dicente Dia- 

 cono, Ite, nuntiate, vertent se ad chorum remanentes super gradum, & cantent, 

 Surreodt Dominus de sepulchro usque in finem. Finita antiphona Domnus 

 Abbas incipiat Te Deum laudamus in medio ante Altare, moxque campanae 

 sonentur in angularibus. Cum cantatur Per singulos dies sonentur omnia signa 

 in choro. 



This was the service of the fourteenth century at St. Blasien in 

 the Black Forest.^ Martene' gives an Easter service in which the 

 actors at the sepulchre are increased to four: 



Quorum unus alba indutus acsi ad aliud agendum ingrediatur, atque latenter 

 sepulchri locum adeat : ibique, manu tenens palmam quietus sedeat. 



This one personates the angel, while the remaining three represent 

 the three Maries. 



The twenty-eight published Plays of the Resurrection Milchsack 

 has exploited so successfully as to leave little work for a successor. 

 He divides them according to development into four groups, of which 

 we will consider in a somewhat condensed form the first and fourth. 



To the first-class five plays are assigned — 



A. Einsiedeln play of the twelfth century; 



B. Paris play of the eleventh century; 



C. St. Martial, Limoges, of the eleventh century, forming an 

 introduction to the Mysterium^ Fatuarum Yirginum; 



T>. St. Blasien in Schwarzwalde, given above; 



E. Dunstanus, Concordia, published by Martene. 



T^^ese plays, omitting introductions, can be tabulated as follows:' 



1 Mone gives p. 8, a cut of the three Maries censing the sepulchre and the angel ; the 

 sketch he found at the bearinning of the Good Friday choirsongs in a MS. at Karlsruhe. 



2 Milchsack, p. 34, note.— Milchsack gives a full bibliography of the published Latin 

 liturgical plays. 3 Milchsack, p. 38. 



4 See p. 151. 6 Milchsack, p. 38. 



