Young—The Harrowing of Hell. 
895 
cleric who, hidden within the church (quasi latente), utters the 
challenge, Quis est iste rex gloriae ?, and flees (quasi fugiens ) 
when the doors are opened; and by the subsequent purifying of 
the building. 
But since none of the liturgical pieces hitherto mentioned 
ever had any connection with drama, in tracing the entrance 
of the Descent theme into true liturgical drama we must seek 
a new avenue of approach, an avenue that leads us at once 
to a well-known series of dramatic offices connected with the 
Sepulchrum of Eastertide. * 1 2 3 This series of dramatic offices 
*An admirably clear account of the Easter Sepulchre is given by 
Chambers, Mediaeval Stage, Vol. II, pp. 16-25. A later article, The 
Easter Sepulchre, by the late Father Feasey, O. S. B , is found in the 
Ecclesiastical Review (Philadelphia), 1905, pp. 337-356, 468-500. 
Unfortunately Father Feasey seems not to have known Mr. Chambers’ 
indispensable book. 
Both accounts seem,—perhaps inevitably,— to lack precision in the 
following points: 
(1) the origin of the Sepulchrum itself; 
(2) the confusion of the false “sepulchre” of the reservation from 
Thursday to Friday and the true sepulchrum of the burial from Fri¬ 
day to Easter; 
\ 
(3) the attachment to the sepulchrum of the Quern quaeritis Visita¬ 
tion Office. 
In another place I shall venture to add a modicum to the informa¬ 
tion on these points at present accessible to students of the drama. 
In addition to the materials used by Chambers and by Feasey, one 
may consult Moroni, Dizionario di Erudizione Storico-ecclesiastico 
Vols. VIII, 293-4, LXIV, 81-90; J.—B. Thiers, Traite de VExposition 
du S. Sacrement de Vautel, T. II, Avignon, 1777, pp. 175-192; C. Ro- 
hault de Fleury, La Messe: Etudes archeologiques sur ses monuments, 
8 Vols., Paris, 1883 ff., I, 107-109, 239, II, 57-78; H. A. Daniel, Codex 
LUurgicue, Vol. I, Leipzig, 1847, p. 375; Travaux de VAcademie Im- 
periale de Reims, xx (1854), p. 43; Annales Archeologiques, iv, 238, 
241-2, 246-248; F. X. Kraus, Real-EncyTclopadie der christlichen Alter- 
thiimer, Vol. I, pp. 39, 89-90; X. Barbier de Montault, Les Taber¬ 
nacles de la Renaissance d Rome, Arras, 1879, pp. 5-7; Revue de VArt 
Chretien, 1887, p. 84; G. Diclich, Dizionario Sacro-Liturgico, Vol. IV, 
Venice, 1836, pp. 7-9; J. Corblet, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et 
archeologique du Sacrement de VEuoharistie, 2 Vols., Paris, 1885-86, 
I, 538, II, 92; J. Corblet, Essai historHque et liturgique sur les ciboires 
