The Sacred Vestments

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Excerpt from The Sacred Vestments: An English Rendering of the Third Book of the 'Rationale Divinorum Officiorum' of Durandus, Bishop of Mende With the exception of Neale and Webb's 'Symbolism, ' which is an edited translation of its first Book 'Of the Church and its Parts, ' the eight Books of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of Durandus have not, so far as I know, been rendered into English. This means that the greatest and most beautiful, perhaps, of ancient works on the worship of the Catholic Church is inaccessible to any but readers of the Latin tongue. What herein follows is an attempt in part to supply this defect. In making it I have felt that should the work fail to find readers (which would appear unlikely in days when the mind of all England is strained upon matters liturgical) the blame will attach to the inefficient interpreter, not to the pious and gifted author, of an illustrious book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.