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DURANTI, Guillelmus (1237-1296). Rationale divinorum officiorum. Strasbourg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner), not after 1483].
The Rationale divinorum officiorum describes the sources, forms, and symbols of Christian ritual. Originally published in 1459, it was very popular in the 15th century and was published in numerous incunable editions. This edition is dated from an MS in the Utrecht UB copy. H *6469 = 6470 = 6488; GW 9125; BMC I 130; Bod-inc D-189; BSB-Ink D-344; ISTC id00427000; Goff D-427.
Chancery folio (295 x 208mm). 314 leaves, initials in red, rubricated (some marginal spotting, faint unobtrusive waterstains in last few quires, a1 with two marginal chips and repaired not affecting text). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal corner- and centrepieces, two metal catches, 15th-century German manuscript rubricated list of apostles used as front pastedown, rear pastedown a manuscript fragment of a saint’s life (lacking clasps, rebacked preserving backstrip). Provenance: Petrus ?Rasinus, pastor of M[?] (inscription dated ?1617) – Pastor Johannes ?Sch of Staucha (purchase note dated 1667) – early manuscript annotations on a1v including a list in Latin and German of books of the Bible (Hebrew Bible and New Testament), and an epitaph for Duranti – M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library; inscription dated 1831. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
The Rationale divinorum officiorum describes the sources, forms, and symbols of Christian ritual. Originally published in 1459, it was very popular in the 15th century and was published in numerous incunable editions. This edition is dated from an MS in the Utrecht UB copy. H *6469 = 6470 = 6488; GW 9125; BMC I 130; Bod-inc D-189; BSB-Ink D-344; ISTC id00427000; Goff D-427.
Chancery folio (295 x 208mm). 314 leaves, initials in red, rubricated (some marginal spotting, faint unobtrusive waterstains in last few quires, a1 with two marginal chips and repaired not affecting text). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal corner- and centrepieces, two metal catches, 15th-century German manuscript rubricated list of apostles used as front pastedown, rear pastedown a manuscript fragment of a saint’s life (lacking clasps, rebacked preserving backstrip). Provenance: Petrus ?Rasinus, pastor of M[?] (inscription dated ?1617) – Pastor Johannes ?Sch of Staucha (purchase note dated 1667) – early manuscript annotations on a1v including a list in Latin and German of books of the Bible (Hebrew Bible and New Testament), and an epitaph for Duranti – M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library; inscription dated 1831. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
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