82 Wiscdnsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
the procession, and persisted as independent plays. 5 Finally Sepet 
assumes that these independent plays reunited in the form of Old 
Testament dramatic cycles, such as we find in several of the ver¬ 
naculars of Western Europe. 6 
As to the validity of these comprehensive conjectures and infer¬ 
ences scholars have disagreed, 7 and it may be that the extant texts 
are insufficient for demonstrating with precision the part of the 
Or do Prophetarum in the forming of the vernacular cycles upon 
subjects from the Old Testament. In any case I mention the 
matter here not for the purpose of passing judgment, but rather 
in order to discriminate between the part of Sepet’s study that 
is demonstrably correct and the part into which enters tenuous 
conjecture. However doubtful his more ambitious conjectures may 
be, his derivation of the dramatic Or do Prophetarum from the 
pseudo-Augustinian lectio is sound. Such additional evidences 
and such corrections of detail as may be advanced in the present 
study all combine in support of Sepet ? s important discovery. 
5 See Sepet, pp. 49-80. 
6 See Sepet, pp. 165-179. 
7 See Meyer, pp. 53-56 ; W. Creizenach, in Literaturhlatt fur germanische und 
romanische Philologie, Vol. XXIII (1902), col. 203 ; H. Craig, The Origin of the 
Old Testament Cycles, in Modern Philology, Vol. X (1913), pp. 473—487 ; 
Adeline M. Jenney, A Further Word as to the Origin of the Old Testament 
Plays, in Modern Philology, Vol. XIII (1915), pp. 59-64. 
