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‖ Exultet|ɛgˈzʌltɛt|
[L.]
The ancient hymn beginning Exultet jam angelica turba cælorum, sung in the Roman Church at the benediction of the paschal candle on Easter-eve; a musical setting of this hymn. Exultet Roll (see quot. 1957).
[1519: see exultand.] 1869Rock Ch. Our Fathers I. 212 [An illumination representing] the deacon singing the Exultet in the ‘ambo’. 1882Catal. Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 1876–1881 70 Exultet-Roll... Written in Lombardic or Beneventine characters of the xiith century, with pneums. 1884Cath. Dict. 406, s.v. Holy Week, The use of the paschal candle goes back..as far at least as the time of Zosimus, who was made Pope in 417, and the sublime words of the ‘Exultet’..can scarcely be less ancient. 1937Burlington Mag. Nov. 241/2 Perhaps the strangest of all liturgical MSS. are the rolls containing the text of the formulary for the blessing of the Paschal Candle on the evening of Holy Saturday, and usually known from the first words ‘Exultet joui [sic] angelica turba’, as Exultet Rolls. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 486/2 In S. Italy, from the early 10th cent. to the 13th cent., it was customary to write out this prose [sc. the Paschal Proclamation], with appropriate musical directions, on rolls known as ‘Exultet Rolls’. |