Note 229 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)

Text in Froning, 206, from edition of Zezschwitz, Vom römischen Kaisertum deutscher Nation (1877). The earliest edition is by Pez, Thesaurus Anecd. Noviss. (1721-9), ii. 3, 187. This writer introduced confusion by giving the play the title Ludus paschalis de adventu et interitu Antichristi. It has nothing to do with Easter. The latest and best edition is that by W. Meyer, in Sitzungsberichte d. hist.-phil. Classe d. königl. bayr. Akad. d. Wiss. (Munich), 1882, 1. The unique MS. is Munich MS. 19,411 (twelfth-thirteenth century), formerly in Kloster Tegernsee. Both Zezschwitz and Meyer have long and valuable introductions; cf. also Froning, 199; Creizenach, i. 78. T. Wright prints the play from Pez, in Chester Plays, ii. 227.