Rationale divinorum officiorum -- Excerpts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Author: Durand, Guillaume c 1230-1296
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Book VIII of Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, by Guillaume Durand, early 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 139/ ff. 68r-88v
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...
Dates:
early 14th century
In Agenda Mortuorum apud Rationale Divinorum by William Durand, Bishop of Mende, 10 October 1477
part
Identifier: MS 73/ff. 1r-11r
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...
Dates:
10 October 1477