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DURANTI, GULIELMUS. Rationale divinorum officiorum. [3], 272 leaves; lacks final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 290x204 mm, contemporary wooden boards with brass catch, lacking clasp, modern morocco back, endpapers renewed, small wormholes through covers entering contents at beginning and end not impairing legibility; scattered foxing, minor stains, and contemporary marginalia; leather fore-edge tabs. Early inscriptions on title including that of the Cistercian abbey of Schöntal dated 1629; 19th-century signature of James A. Davis. (Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1484)
Fundamental authority for the history of western liturgy, originally published in 1459 and frequently reprinted, describing the sources, forms, and symbolism of Christian ritual. GW 9126; BMC I, 132; Goff D428; ISTC id00428000; Sarton II, 1127.
