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DURANTI, Guillelmus (1237-1296). Rationale divinorum officiorum. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 18 March 1475.
The most complete account of the laws, ceremonies, rites and mystical interpretation of the western Church, with contemporary coloured woodcut border. Goff D-408.
Royal 2° (402 x 280mm). With the first blank leaf, woodcut border of vine and flowers with a jester opening the text, border and first two initials coloured by a contemporary hand, outline capitals, most painted in red, rubricated (minor wormholes at beginning and end touching some letters). Contemporary blindstamped brown leather over wooden boards, strawberry, acorn and other tools, metal corner- and centerpieces, fore-edge clasps, ms. title label on front cover, leather index tabs (rebacked in 16/17th-century pigskin). Provenance: contemporary corrections -- Salzburg, Benedictine monastery of St Peter (1767 bookplate, inscription).
The Rationale was written in 1286 and soon became a standard authority for the ritual, symbolism and vestments of the Church from the thirteenth century onwards. Although difficult to comprehend today, the significance of the Rationale may be judged in the context of its first appearance in print, being one of the earliest books printed at Mainz (1459). This is the seventh edition of the work. With the variant in the colophon as noted by GW, and an isolated instance of printed foliation on 22/1. HC *6475; GW 9107; BMC II, 523; BSB-Ink D-328; Bod-ind D-184; CIBN D-283; Goff D-408.
The most complete account of the laws, ceremonies, rites and mystical interpretation of the western Church, with contemporary coloured woodcut border. Goff D-408.
Royal 2° (402 x 280mm). With the first blank leaf, woodcut border of vine and flowers with a jester opening the text, border and first two initials coloured by a contemporary hand, outline capitals, most painted in red, rubricated (minor wormholes at beginning and end touching some letters). Contemporary blindstamped brown leather over wooden boards, strawberry, acorn and other tools, metal corner- and centerpieces, fore-edge clasps, ms. title label on front cover, leather index tabs (rebacked in 16/17th-century pigskin). Provenance: contemporary corrections -- Salzburg, Benedictine monastery of St Peter (1767 bookplate, inscription).
The Rationale was written in 1286 and soon became a standard authority for the ritual, symbolism and vestments of the Church from the thirteenth century onwards. Although difficult to comprehend today, the significance of the Rationale may be judged in the context of its first appearance in print, being one of the earliest books printed at Mainz (1459). This is the seventh edition of the work. With the variant in the colophon as noted by GW, and an isolated instance of printed foliation on 22/1. HC *6475; GW 9107; BMC II, 523; BSB-Ink D-328; Bod-ind D-184; CIBN D-283; Goff D-408.
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