Note 247 — Chapter XX · THE SECULARIZATION OF THE PLAYS
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Sepet, xxix, 112, 128, points out that certain lectiones and responsoria which accompany the Adam and Cain and Abel are taken from the office for Septuagesima. Possibly an independent liturgical drama of the Fall arose at Septuagesima and was absorbed by the Prophetae. But mention of the ‘primus Adam’ is not uncommon in the Nativity liturgy; cf. Sepet, xxix, 107, and the Sponsus (p. 61).