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Note 10 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS

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J. W. Legg, Westminster Missal (H.B.S.), 1469; G. F. Aungier, Hist. and Antiq. of Syon Monastery, 350; Lanfranc, Decreta pro Ord. S. Bened. (P.L. cl. 465) ‘Ubi dicitur Partiti sunt vestimenta mea sibi, sint duo de indutis iuxta altare, hinc et inde trahentes ad se duos pannos qui ante officium super altare missi fuerant, linteo tamen remanente subtus missale’; Leofric’s Missal (Exeter, eleventh century), 261 ‘hac expleta statim duo diaconi nudant altare sindone quae prius fuerit sub evangelio posita in modum furantis. Aliqui vero, antequam legatur passio domini, praeparant sindones duas sibi coherentes et in eo versu ubi legitur: Partiti sunt vestimenta, scindunt hinc inde ipsas sindones desuper altare in modum furantis, et secum auferunt’; York Missal, i. 102 ‘hic distrahantur linteamina super altare connexa’; Sarum Missal, 323 ‘hic accedant duo ministri in superpelliceis, unus ad dextrum et alius ad sinistrum cornu altaris; et inde duo linteamina amoveant quae ad hoc super altare fuerunt apposita.’ I find the custom in Aquitaine (Dublin Review (1897), 366), and in Hungary (Dankó, Vetus Hymnarium Eccles. Hungariae, 534).

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