THE SYMBOLISM

OF

Churches and Church Ornaments;

A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE

Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

WRITTEN BY
WILLIAM DURANDUS,
SOMETIME BISHOP OF MENDE.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, NOTES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

BY
THE REV. JOHN MASON NEALE, B.A.
AND
THE REV. BENJAMIN WEBB, B.A.,
OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Leeds:
T.W. GREEN, COMMERCIAL STREET
LONDON: J.G.F.&J. RIVINGTON.
CAMBRIDGE: T. STEVENSON.
1843.

DEDICATED

TO

The Cambridge Camden Society

BY

TWO OF ITS FOUNDERS.

A Temple upon Thy Holy Mount, and an Altar in the city wherein Thou dwellest, a resemblance of the Holy Tabernacle which Thou hadst prepared from the beginning; and Wisdom was with Thee. O send Her out of thy Holy Heaven, and from the Throne of Thy Glory, that being present She may labour with me."

Wisdom IX. 8, 9, 10.

Preface

Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI

Supplement

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H

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