Note 201 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)

The Gloriosi et famosi hymn occurs in a twelfth-century Einsiedeln MS. (Milchsack, 36) as an overture to the Quem quaeritis. It is arranged for ‘chorus’ and ‘Prophetae,’ and was therefore borrowed from Christmas. It is followed by another hymn, more strictly Paschal, the Hortum praedestinatio, and this, which is also used with the Sens Quem quaeritis (Milchsack, 58), is sung at the end of the Rouen Prophetae by ‘omnes prophetae et ministri [? = vocatores] in pulpito’—a curious double borrowing between the two feasts. Meyer, 51, argues that the Einsiedeln MS., which is in a fragmentary state, contained a Prophetae, to which, and not to the Quem quaeritis, the Gloriosi et famosi belonged.