Note 225 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)
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Latest text, with long introduction, mainly philological, by W. Cloetta, in Romania, xxii. (1893), 177; others by Du Méril, 233; Coussemaker, 1; E. Boehmer, in Romanische Studien, iv. 99; K. Bartsch, Lang. et Litt. françaises, 13; cf. also Julleville, Les Myst. i. 27; E. Stengel, Z. f. rom. Phil. iii. 233; E. Schwan, Z. f. rom. Phil. xi. 469; H. Morf, Z. f. rom. Phil. xx. 385. The manuscript is Bibl. Nat. Lat. 1139. MM. Cloetta (p. 221) and G. Paris (Litt. fr. au moyen âge², 237, 246) assign the Sponsus to the earlier half or second third of the twelfth century, and the former, with the delightful diffidence of a philologist, thinks, on linguistic grounds, that it was written at Saint Amant de Boixe (sixteen kilomètres north of Angoulême). It only remains for some archivist to find a clerk of St. Martial of Limoges whose native place was this very village.