Rationale divinorum officiorum

Description

Title: Rationale divinorum officiorum
Creator: Durandus, Guillelmus, ca. 1230-1296
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on sheeskin parchment of Guillelmus Durandus's (c. 1230-1296), Rationale divinorum officiorum, with marginal notes; also contains alphabetical indexes of St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones in Cantica Canticorum and the notulae to that text
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by two hands: (A) copied art. 1 in small, highly abbreviated Gothica Semitextualis Currens with some southern features; (B) copied artt. 2-3 in a small Gothica Textualis Libraria.
Decoration: Headings in red; alternately red and blue paragraph marks; alternately red and blue 3-line flourished initials, half-inserted, with penwork in the contrasting colors; half-inserted painted initials of various sizes and colors; historiated 8-line initial (damaged) at the head of Book I in the same colours and gold, representing the author; and a circular diagram of the lunar month on f. 131r.
Binding: Sixteenth century, blind-tooled quarter binding of brown leather and bevelled wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs, and decorated with rolls; two clasps attached to the front board, associated with decorated brass catches on the rear board.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 135 : 340 x 245 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Durand, Guillaume, ca. 1230-1296.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Durand, Guillaume, ca. 1230-1296
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Durandus, Guillelmus, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.