[128] Peregr. Silviæ, ed. Geyer, c. 36-38, p. 67-69 cod.
[129] The name was usual in Spain. Mabillon, De Lit. Gal., 32. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxii. 186, quotes for it Isidor., De Off. Eccl., 1, 28.
[130] According to Migne (Handbuch, 671) in several dioceses of France it is not even yet the custom.
[131] I have arrived at the conclusion that in the missal in the cathedral library at Cologne (cod. 88), the benedictio palmarum has been added by another hand. In the Essen cod. D.I., it appears in the first part (fol. 45), but in neither of the other parts.
[132] De Off. Eccl., 1, 28. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxxiii. 763. Isidore makes no mention of carrying palm branches in the church, as Duchesne (p. 237) implies, but he does speak in this passage of the traditio symboli and of the capitilavium which in Spain were both performed on Palm Sunday.
[133] De Off. Eccl., 4, 10. Migne, Patr. Lat., cv. 1008.
[134] Isidor., De Off. Eccl., 1, 27.
[135] Mabillon, Lit. Gall. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxii. 265. Cf. Synod of Agde (506), can. 13.
[136] Ambrosius, Epist., 20, c. 4.
[137] Sacr. Geb., 1, 35, 36. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxiv. 1088.