[153] Sacrarum caerimoniarum sive rituum ecclesiasticorum S. Rom. Ecclesiae Libri tres (Venetiis, MDLXXXII). Various details are given more fully here than in the older accounts. For the Rite as used at the present day see Grissell, Sede Vacante, Parker, 1903.
[154] It is quite possible that the Laudes at the Papal Coronation may originally have been the development of the ceremonial reception of a new Bishop, such as obtained in France in early times—see Martène, II. p. 29. If so, the forms have been assimilated to the Imperial ‘Laudes.’
[155] Reginonis Chronicon, s.a. 750. (Pertz, M. G. H. Script. I. 556.)
[156] Reginonis Chronicon, s.a. 752. (Pertz, l.c.)
[157] J.Th.S. II. pp. 383 ff.
[158] Chronicon Anonymum in Guidi, Chronica Minora, p. 21.
[159] In I Reg. Expos. iv. 5 (P. L. LXXIX. 278).
[160] St Gregory’s expression ‘qui in culmine ponitur’ is somewhat unusual, and it may be noted that a similar expression is found in Can. 1 of the 12th Council of Toledo (681) ‘etenim sub qua pace vel ordine serenissimus Ervigius princeps regni conscenderit culmen regnandique per sacrosanctam unctionem susceperit potestatem,’ etc.
[161] Photius, Epp. I. 16.
[162] Brightman considers that the language of Photius is metaphorical only and gives later instances of the figurative use of such words as χρίσμα and χρίειν. Loc. cit., pp. 384, 385.