University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Contents MS 139 contains the eighth book of Guillaume Durand's 'Rationale Divinorum Oficiorum', a text on the ritual of the medieval Church, and therefore presents a good outline of the medieval liturgy in the 13th-century West. Durand's text was extremely popular during the Middle Ages, and was frequently copied. The text of the eight book, as it appears in MS 139, ends on f. 88v with the words et aliis preciosis sumptibus urbem lustrant. Explicit speculum rationale super...

Contents This seems to be an excerpt from a treatise called Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by William Durand, bishop of Mende (1230-1296), which is about the symbolism of Christian ritual and liturgy and how this relates to Church architecture and art. The excerpt in this manuscript appears to be from Book7, Chapter 35 of the 'Rationale Divinorum Officiorum'('De Officio mortuorum').It begins, "Hoc loco de officio mortuorum dicendum est..." and ends, "Vir...

Contents This section contains miscellaneous expositions of liturgical forms, for the following:ff. 10r-10v: De salutacione angelica Ave Mariaff. 10v-11r: De Salve Regina in extremisff. 11r-11v: De Salve Regina ad quod populus consuevit occurereff. 11v-12v: De officio misse, Salve sancta parens ...

Contents These folios of MS 139 seem to be a version of a text by the 13th-century cardinal and theologian, Hugh of Saint-Cher. Among several texts, Hugh's commentary on the Christian Mass, Speculum ecclesiae, was a very well-known and widely disseminated medieval text. The version in MS 139 begins on f. 90r with Incipit speculum ecclesie editum a domine hugone cardinali. Dicit apostolus ad Ephesios vi.Induite vos armaturam Dei. The...