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DURANTI, Guillelmus (ca 1237-1296). Rationale divinorum officiorum. Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner?)], 1484.
2o (302 x 203 mm). 276 leaves. Leaves 1/4-39/7 with printed foliation I-CCLXXII. 47 lines and headline, double column. Gothic types 1:160 (title, headlines, etc.), 2:99a(91) (smaller headings), 3:99b(91) (text). Two- to eight-line initial spaces. One initial in red, blue and green, other large Lombard initials and paragraph signs in red. Modern calf, with contemporary sides, preserving contemporary endpapers, upper cover tooled with Rautengerank, pineapple and rosette tools, lower cover panelled with intersecting fillets with a saltire at center, compartments filled with pineapple and rosette tools, modern clasps. Provenance: Marginalia and notes on endpapers in red ink by rubricator. -- Johann Strauss of Walderbach ("ad monasterum Walderbach anno dom 1520", inscription on front free endpaper). -- Amberg, Bavaria, Franciscans (inscription on front free endpaper). -- New Orleans, St. Alphonsus Church, Redemptorist Libary (ink stamp on front free endpaper).
The Rationale divinorum officiorum describes the liturgy of the Roman Rite and discusses its allegorical meaning. It is still regarded as an authority on the liturgy of the later Middle Ages and as a guide to the symbolism of rites and vestments. The work, which survives in a large number of manuscripts, was first printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1459, and thereafter in many other incunable editions. H *6489; BMC I, 132 (IB. 1815); BSB-Ink. D-345; GW 9126; Harvard/Walsh 219; Pr 590; Goff D-428.
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The Rationale divinorum officiorum describes the liturgy of the Roman Rite and discusses its allegorical meaning. It is still regarded as an authority on the liturgy of the later Middle Ages and as a guide to the symbolism of rites and vestments. The work, which survives in a large number of manuscripts, was first printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1459, and thereafter in many other incunable editions. H *6489; BMC I, 132 (IB. 1815); BSB-Ink. D-345; GW 9126; Harvard/Walsh 219; Pr 590; Goff D-428.