Note 50 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS

It is merely a guess to say St. Gall. Schübiger, Sängerschule St. Gallens, 69, mentions the sepulchre there, but gives no very early notice. The sepulchre was known in the Eastern, as well as the Western Church, and for all I know may have come from Jerusalem (Feasey, 177). As to date, Weber, 32, suggests that pictorial representations of the Maries at the tomb show the influence of the dramatic Visitatio Sepulchri as far back as the ninth century. His chief point is that the Maries carry turribula (cf. p. 25, n. 5).