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<H>ortura pomorum uario 
Non msignem edulio 
Quantum uirtutis spatio 18 
Coeqnalem Elisio. 
In hoc magnns decurio 
Ac nobilis centurio 
Florem Marie proprio 
Sepeliuit in tumulo. 
Flos autem die tercio, 
Qni floret ab initio, 
Refloruit e tumulo 
Summo mane dilucnlo. 
Orto <iam sole>. 
Post representationem Mariarnm 17 sequltur: 
Te Deum laudamns. 18 
Here the prose Hortum prcedestinatio is used as a trope of the 
third responsory of Easter Matins, and is followed, according to 
the rubric, by a version of the dramatic Visitatio Sepulchri. 1 * It 
appears, then, that both through its content and through its tradi¬ 
tional associations the Hortum prcedestinatio belongs to the liturgy 
of Easter, 20 and was commonly used as a trope, or appendage, of 
the third responsory of Easter Matins. 21 It will be remembered, 
furthermore, that it is immediately after this third responsory 
that the dramatic Visit atio Sepulchri is commonly found. 
These facts ought to provide a sufficient basis for determining 
the relations of the fragmentary Hortum prcedestinatio in the Ein- 
siedeln manuscript. This fragment of a prose is, to be sure, pre¬ 
ceded,—after a lacuna of unknown length, 22 —by the beginning of 
an Ordo Prophetarum; but the prose is immediately, and appropri- 
18 spatio] precio (Mazarine Mss. 346 and 349), with obviously better sense. 
17 The Representatio Mariarum is, of course, the well-known Visitatio Sepulchri 
traditionally performed immediately before the Te Deum of Easter Matins. 
18 The rubric In Laudibus follows immediately. 
19 The actual text of the Visitatio Sepulchri happens not to be given in this 
manuscript. The text referred to was probably similar to that reprinted by 
DuMeril, pp. 99-100. 
20 Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum, No. 8045, assigns it to Easter. 
21 This prose is used as a trope of the third responsory of Easter Matins not 
only in the text printed above from Bibl. Nat. Ms. 1028, but also in my unpub¬ 
lished texts from Mazarine Mss. 346 and 349, mentioned above, note 14. 
22 See above, note 1. 
