Note 243 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)

See the curious and detailed document in Appendix S as to the Tournai ceremony founded by Peter Cotrel in the sixteenth century. A precisely similar foundation was that of Robert Fabri at Saint Omer in 1543 (Bull. arch. du Comité des travaux historiques (1886), 80; Mém. de la Soc. des Antiquaires de la Morinie, xx. 207). The inventory of the ‘ornementz et parementz’ in a ‘coffre de cuir boully’ includes ‘ung colomb de bois revestu de damas blancq.’ Alike at Tournai, St. Omer, and Besançon (Martene, iii. 30) the ceremony was on the Wednesday in the Quatuor Tempora of Advent. For the ‘golden Mass’ of this day the Gospel is the same as that of the Annunciation; cf. York Missal, i. 6; Pfannenschmidt, 438.