BOOK, Liturgical treatise, 1503.

Guillaume Durand:

Rationale Divinorum officiorum.

Venice, Petrus de Quarengiis, 1503. Folio. 31 x 21 cm. [2] + 137 leaves. Leaf 134v with large circular diagram (letterpress within woodcut lines).

Old vellum, damage to top of spine with some loss, 3-cm crack to front joint. Some rather insignificant ink-stains, a small ink stain to top edge, slightly corroding a few mms of top margin of about 40 leaves, slight dampstaining and soiling, a few corner repairs not affecting text, old or contemporary annotations.

”Rationale divinorum” is a liturgical treatise written in Italy before 1286, on the origin and symbolic sense of the Christian ritual, presenting a picture of the liturgy of the 13th century in the West. It is one of the main authorities on Western Liturgies.

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