Young—Or do Prophetarum. 
75 
This fragment is obviously the processional beginning of a ver¬ 
sion of the Ordo Prophetarum. Although we must regret the ab¬ 
sence of the prophecies themselves, we are fortunate in having a 
relatively complete form of the processional Gloriosi et famosi. 13 
From this text it appears that at Einsiedeln the Prophetce them¬ 
selves sang the stanzas of this cantio , a practice that was probably 
followed at Laon, but certainly not at Rouen. 
The most puzzling aspect of the text before us is the uncertainty 
as to the relation of the fragmentary Ordo Prophetarum to the 
fragment of the prose Hortum Prcedestinatio that follows it in the 
manuscript. A complete version of this prose may be seen in the 
following text: 14 
R esponsorium: Et ualde mane una sabbatorum ueniunt ad monu- 
mentum, orto iam sole, alleluya. Versus: Et respicientes uiderunt 
reuolutum lapidem ab hostio monumenti. Orto. Gloria Patri et Filio et 
Spiritui Sancto. <Verstjs>: Et <respicientes>. 
Prosa 
<H>ortum predestinatio 
Paruo sabbaifi spatio 
Prouiderat in proximo 
Ciuitatis proastio, 
13 From this text we are able to complete one or two of the initia of the 
Rouen text. 
14 Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Ms. latin 2028, Breviarium Senonense ssec. xiv, 
fol. 12 Or. So far as I know this text is now published for the first time. It 
appears that texts of the Hortum prcedestinatio are relatively few. Chevalier, 
Repertorium Hymnologicum, No. 8045, mentions only one text, in a breviary 
of the year 1548. In the appendix to Analecta Bollandiana, Vol. XXXIII, 
Fasc. 1, Jan., 1914, Chevalier’s information is supplemented by the following 
note: “Ms. Douai, 170 (X. Is.), 72a. Rev. cath. Rouen, II, 868.” I have texts 
also from Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, Ms. 349, Breviarium Farsemonasterii 
ssec. xiii, fol. 82r— 82v, and Bibl. Mazarine, Ms. 346, Breviarium Sancti Maglorii 
ssec. xv in., fol. 103v. From an unidentified Sens manuscript, the Hortum Prce¬ 
destinatio and accompanying Visitatio Sepulchri are published in Melanges de la 
Societe des Bibliophiles, 1834, pp. 165—167, and this text is reprinted by Du- 
Meril, pp. 98-100. It will be observed that the text now published from Paris 
Ms. 1028 is from the use of Sens, and that, like the text reprinted by DuMeril, it 
presents the Hortum prcedestinatio as associated with the Visitatio Sepulchri of 
Easter. Although the Hortum prcedestinatio contains one or two rather awk¬ 
ward conceptions, I should not call it a “prose barbare”, as do the editors of 
Melanges (p. 166, note 1). 
15 proastio] proactio (Ms.). This reading explains the unintelligible pro fascio 
of the Sens text reprinted by DuMeril, pp. 98-99. The reading proastio is found 
in Bibl. Mazarine Ms. 346, fol. 103v, and prophastio, in Bibl. Mazarine Ms. 349, 
fol. 82v. Proastium (“suburb”) may serve as the emendation desired by Meyer 
(P. 51). 
