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The text of the Elevatio from MS. 387 of the Stiftsbibliothek r 
St. Gall, 1 2 may well come first, both because of its age and be¬ 
cause of its simplicity. It is to be observed, in the first place,, 
that the office before us occupied the precise liturgical position, 
at the end of Easter Matins, that was later given over to the 
Visitatio Sepulchri, this latter ceremony being, almost cer¬ 
tainly, of later origin than either the Deposiiio or the Elevatio V 
In the second place, one notes that although the act of elevation 
itself seems to be accompanied by no precisely appropriate 
liturgical text, this simple ceremony is followed immediately by 
the singing of a respond, the general content of which is the 
same as that of the Visitatio Sepulchri that later took this 
position in the liturgy. 3 Lastly, it appears that according to 
the use of St. Gall in the eleventh century, the monks “buried” 
in the SepulcWum the Corpus Domini alone, without the* 
cross. 4 
< ELEVATIO CRUCIS> 5 
(p. 55) Eespomorium : 6 Dum transisset sabbatum Maria, 
Magdalena et Maria Iacobi et Salome emerunt aromata, ut 
1 St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, MS. 387, p. 55, Breviarium Monasticum , 
Sangallense saec. xi, —described by G. Scherer, Verzeiohniss der Hand- 
schriften der Stiftsbibliothelc von St. Gallen, Halle, 1875, pp. 131-132. 
The attachment of this breviary to the monastery of St. Gall is clearly 
shown by the Sanctorale (S. Gallus, pp. 31, 461; S. Otmarus pp. 33,. 
512; S. Columbanus, p. 33). 
2 This MS contains no Depositio for Good Friday, and no suggestion 
of an Elevatio other than that printed herewith. 
2 In another place I shall make certain observations on the import¬ 
ance of this text for the history of the “Quern quaeritis” Visitatio 
Sepulchri. 
4 That the St. Gall use changed in this matter is shown by St. Gall 
MS. 448, Breviarium Sangallense saec. xv in., the pertinent parts of 
which I have published elsewhere (See Publications of the Modern 
Language Association, Vol. XXIV, 1909, pp. 319-321. Acording to- 
St. Gall MS. 448 (p. 102) the Crux alone was “buried” on Good Friday. 
5 S. Gall, MS. 387, p. 55. 
6 Third Respond of Easter Matins. 
