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DURANTI, Guillelmus (1237-1296). Rationale divinorum officiorum. [Strasbourg: Georg Husner, not after 1478].
An attractively decorated copy with strikingly pearlescent opening initials and wide margins preserving many deckle edges. The fundamental authority for the history of Western liturgy, originally published in 1459 and frequently reprinted, this work describes the sources, forms, and symbolism of Christian ritual. HC *6462; GW 9114; BMC I 85; Bod-inc D-187; BSB-Ink D-336; ISTC id00418000; Goff D-418.
Royal folio (400 x 285mm). 199 leaves. 10 illuminated opening initials in red, blue or silver within fictive frame, with floral extensions and central motif in green, red, blue, yellow, purple and sometimes heightened in gold, silver balls, other initials in red or blue, rubricated, foliated (occasional light staining, light worming just touching a few letters, last leaf strengthened). Contemporary Bamberg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Schwenke-Schunke p.4 Adler 82, p.55 Blattwerk 494], manuscript title label on upper board, metal furniture (spine restored, without one catch, rubbed). Provenance: Austria, Melk Abbey (early monastic inscription erased).
An attractively decorated copy with strikingly pearlescent opening initials and wide margins preserving many deckle edges. The fundamental authority for the history of Western liturgy, originally published in 1459 and frequently reprinted, this work describes the sources, forms, and symbolism of Christian ritual. HC *6462; GW 9114; BMC I 85; Bod-inc D-187; BSB-Ink D-336; ISTC id00418000; Goff D-418.
Royal folio (400 x 285mm). 199 leaves. 10 illuminated opening initials in red, blue or silver within fictive frame, with floral extensions and central motif in green, red, blue, yellow, purple and sometimes heightened in gold, silver balls, other initials in red or blue, rubricated, foliated (occasional light staining, light worming just touching a few letters, last leaf strengthened). Contemporary Bamberg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Schwenke-Schunke p.4 Adler 82, p.55 Blattwerk 494], manuscript title label on upper board, metal furniture (spine restored, without one catch, rubbed). Provenance: Austria, Melk Abbey (early monastic inscription erased).
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