Note 94 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS

Lange’s collection from 224 MSS. supersedes those of Du Méril, Coussemaker, Milchsack, &c. He supplemented it by versions from Meissen, Worms, Venice, and Grau in Hungary in Z. f. d. A. (1896), xli. 77; and has not got those from the (a) Winchester Tropers (cf. p. 12); (b) Autun and Nevers Tropers of the eleventh century (Gautier, 126, 219); (c) St. Magloire, twelfth-century Troper (cf. p. 11); (d) Dublin Processionals (Appendix R); (e) Laon twelfth-century Ordinary (Chevalier, Ordinaires de Laon, 118); (f) Clermont-Ferrand fifteenth-century Breviary (cf. p. 11); (g) Poitiers Ritual (Martene, iii. 173); (h) Verdun tenth-century Consuetudinary (Martene, iv. 299; cf. p. 15). The MSS. extend from the tenth to the eighteenth century. The majority of them are Breviaries; some are Ordinaries, Antiphoners, Processionals; a few are late Tropers, in which, besides the Tropes proper, the Holy week Ordo is included (cf. Gautier, 81); two (B. N. Lat. 1139 from Limoges, and Orleans MS. 178, from Fleury) are special books of dramatic repraesentationes; cf. p. 1.