Note 48 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS

The sepulchrum is not in the Sacramentarium Gelasianum (†seventh century, ed. H. A. Wilson, 77); nor the Sacramentum Gregorianum (†eighth century, P. L. lxxviii. 86), ‘qua salutata et reposita in loco suo’; nor in the Roman Ordines collected by Mabillon (P. L. lxxviii) nor in those added by Duchesne, 451, 464. The Ordines of 954 and 963 repeat the Gregorian formula, which is expanded by those of 1215 and 1319 into ‘in suo loco super altare.’ There is no mention of the sepulchrum in the Gallican liturgical books collected by Mabillon (P. L. lxxii). Of English books Leofric’s Exeter Missal (tenth century, ed. F. E. Warren) has no Sepulchrum; nor the Missal of St. Augustine’s Canterbury (†1100, ed. M. Rule), ‘reposita in loco solito’; nor the Missal of Robert of Jumièges (ninth and tenth century, ed. H. A. Wilson for H. B. Soc.). Pearson, ii. 316, suggests that the cross used for adoration was the great rood usually placed in the rood-loft, but sometimes ‘super altare.’