Note 117 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS
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Ibid. 151. The fourteenth-century text runs:
Tres Mariae: ‘aromata preciosa querimus, Christi corpus ungere volumus, holocausta sunt odorifera sepulturae Christi memori.’ Ungentarius: ‘dabo vobis ungenta optima, salvatoris ungere vulnera, sepulturae eius ad memoriam et nomen eius ad gloriam.’
The earlier texts have ‘aromata ... memori,’ preceded by ‘Mariae cantantes “aromata” procedant ad unguentarium pro accipiendis ungentis’ and followed by ‘quibus acceptis accedant ad sepulchrum.’ Meyer, 58, 91, 106, calls this scene, in which he finds the first introduction of non-liturgical verse, the Zehnsilberspiel, and studies it at great length.