Note 49 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS

Ethelwold’s Concordia Regularis was largely founded on that of Benedict of Aniane (†817; cf. Miss Bateson in E. H. Review, ix. 700), but there is no Easter week ordo in this (P. L. ciii. 701) nor in the same writer’s Memoriale or Ordo Monasticus (P. L. lxvi. 937: cf. his Vita, c. viii, in Acta SS. Feb. ii. 618). Ethelwold also borrowed customs from Fleury and Ghent (Appendix O). The sepulchrum is not mentioned in the Consuetudines Floriacenses (tenth century, ed. De Bosco, Floriac. Vet. Bibl. (1605), 390); cf. Creizenach, i. 49: nor in the description of a thirteenth-century coutumier in Rocher, Hist. de l’Abbaye de St.-Benoît-sur-Loire, 323. The only Fleury Quem quaeritis is of a late type in a thirteenth-century MS.; cf. p. 32. At Ghent, however, an inventory of treasures remaining at St. Bavon’s after a Norman invasion (1019-24) includes ‘tabulas de sepulchro 23,’ which appear to be distinct from reliquiae ‘de sepulchro Domini’ and ‘de operculo ligneo quod super corpus ipsius positum fuit in sepulchro’ (Neues Archiv, viii. 374). Did the possession of these ‘reliquiae’ suggest to the monks of St. Bavon’s the construction of an Easter sepulchre?