64 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
The Vocatores now call upon Moses to testify concerning Christ, 
and after he has delivered his testimony, they conduct him to a 
position beyond the furnace that has been constructed in the middle 
of the nave. As they escort Moses to his new position they sing 
Is'te coetus, to which the choir responds Quod Judcea. Next in order 
Amos is appropriately summoned, utters his prophecy, and is con¬ 
ducted to a position beside Moses. Similarly are treated Isaiah, 
Aaron, Jeremiah, Daniel, Habakkuk, Balaam, Samuel, David, 
Hosea, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Haggai, 
Zechariah, Ezekiel, Malachi, Zacharias, Elizabeth, Saint John the 
Baptist, Simeon, Virgil, Nebuchadnezzar, and the Sibyl. After the 
Sibyl has been escorted to her place among the prophets, the whole 
company of prophets and ministers 113 unite in singing in pulpito 114 
the prose Hortum prmdestinatio . The procession now advances 
into the choir for Mass, the prophets and ministers beginning the 
Introit (Officium) and ruling the choir. 
The most obvious difference between the Rouen play and the 
versions previously considered is, of course, the notable increase in 
the number of the prophets. 115 Against the thirteen personages 
summoned in the lectio, and in the Limoges and Laon versions, the 
Rouen text provides twenty-eight, in non-chronological order, in¬ 
cluding all of the major and minor prophets of the Vulgate. Of 
these twenty-eight, fourteen 116 appear in none of the versions al¬ 
ready considered, whereas, excepting Israel, 117 all the prophets of 
the shorter versions are present in the Rouen play. This increase 
in the number of prophets need occasion no surprise, for such an 
accretion is natural to any literary development, the names of the 
added personages lay ready to hand in the Vulgate, and the sermon- 
izer of the pseudo-Augustinian lectio himself suggests the process: 
Quod si velim ex lege et ex prophetis omnia quse de Christo dicta sunt 
colligere, facilius me tempus quam copia deseret . 118 
113 1 infer that these ministri are the persons who assist the prophetce in 
performing the play. 
114 Pulpitum may mean the rood-loft over the choir-screen. See Gast§, 
pp. 19-20. 
115 Sepet (pp. 29-83), having no knowledge of the Laon play, compares the 
text of Rouen only with that of Limoges. 
118 Amos, Aaron, Samuel, Hosea, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, 
Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Ezekiel, and Malachi. 
117 Israel is present only in the Limoges version. See above, pp. 26, 32. 
118 See above, p. 7. 
