Continental and Illuminations
Rationale divinorum officiorum. Lyon, venundantur Lugduni ab Jacobo Huguetan (impressum per Joacobum Sacon, April (1512).)
Title in red and black with Huguetan's large criblé device, woodcut initials throughout.4to. [3], clxxxviii ff. [1]f. 19th century calf-backed boards (labels missing, rubbed).
A fine early 16th century Lyons edition of the celebrated French canonist Durand's important liturgical treatise on the origin and symbolic sense of Christian ritual, written in Italy c. 1286. It was one earliest books to be printed with the first edition by Füst and Schoeffer published in 1459 with subsequent editions appearing well into the 19th century. "Its eight books contain a detailed account of the laws, ceremonies, customs, and mystical interpretation of the Roman Rite. Book I treats of the church, altar, pictures, bells, churchyards, etc.; II of the ministers; III of vestments; IV of the Mass; V of the canonical hours; VI of the Proprium Temporis; VII of the Proprium Sanctorum; and VIII of the astronomical calendar, manner of finding Easter, Epacts, etc. Durand's Rationale is the most complete medieval treatise of its kind; it is still the standard authority for the ritual of the 13th century and for the symbolism of rites and vestments" Catholic Encyclopaedia.Provenance: Inscribed inside front cover "Montagu Webster, June 18th 1852".Adams D1159. BMSTC (French), p. 147.
Stock Code: CO18010
