Those interested in this hymn might want to know that it also initiates
many of the twelfth-century <Peregrinus> plays about the disciples on the
road to Emmaus performed on Easter Monday at various locations. This
makes me wonder if the hymn had liturgical usage beyond ascension.
See the specimens from Fleury and Beauvais (and Sicily? the book is not
at hand, sorry) in Karl Young's <Drama of the Medieval Church>; a
translation of the Beauvais version is in Bevington's <Medieval Drama>.
John Marlin
The College of St. Elizabeth
Morristown, NJ USA
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