[228] The rubric, according to which Vespers, from the First Sunday in Lent onwards, are to be said ante comestionem, also belongs to the more primitive arrangement.
[229] Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxiv. 1065.
[230] Hom. I. 16 in Evang., c. 5; Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxvi. 1137.
[231] Sacram. Gelas.; Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxiv. 1076 et seqq.
[232] See, however, fer. iv. after Lætare: “Effundam super vos aquam mundam,” and the Saturday before Passion Sunday: “Sitientes venite ad aquas.”
[233] Lanfranc, Decreta, sectio 3; Migne, Patr. Lat., cl. 453; Rupert Tuit., De Div. Off., 4, 9; Honorius Aug., Gemma, 3, 46; Durandus, Rationale, 1, 3 (this last speaks of two such curtains—cortinæ). Heuser, Art. Fastentuch, in Kirchenlex., iv., 2nd ed., 1255; Schriver, Der Dom zu Osnabrück, etc., 1901; Maltzew, Triodion, vi.
[234] For the Transfiguration, see Baillet, v. 104; Bäumer, Gesch. des Breviers, 299, 355; Marzohl u. Schneller, iv. 653 seqq.
[235] Πανέορτος ἡμέρα: Euseb., De Sol. Pasch., c. 5; Migne, Patr. Gr., xxiv. 699; Socrates, Hist. Eccl., 7, 26: πάνδημος ἑορτή. On can. 43 of Elvira, cf. p. 110.
[236] Constit. Apost., 5, 18.
[237] Epist. ad Januarium, 54, c. 1; Sermo 261-65.