Lot 205
Original Leaf From Guillaume Durand's Rationale Divinorum Officiorum (On the Meaning of Divine Offices). Two pages (one sheet), laid paper, in Latin, 12 x 8¼". Printed at Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1481. Written by French bishop Guillaume Durand of Mende (1230-1296), his treatise discusses the origin and symbolic sense of Christian ritual and is acknowledged to be one of the great authorities on Western liturgy. This Incunabula period edition is distinguished by the use of hand-colored rubrication, typical of Renaissance work. It one of the most frequently copied and disseminated texts in all of medieval Christianity.
References: Hain No. 6845; Gogg, Incunabula in American Libraries, No. D-425. Estimate Value $150 - 300
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