A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM DURANDUS SOMETIME BISHOP OF MENDE WITH AN

SACRAMENTALITY: A PRINCIPLE OF ECCLESIASTICAL DESIGN

ANALYSIS OF THE INTRODUCTORY ESSAY INTRODUCTION. 1. Spread of

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II THE ARGUMENT A PRIORI

CHAPTER III THE ARGUMENT FROM ANALOGY

CHAPTER IV PHILOSOPHICAL REASONS FOR BELIEVING IN SYMBOLISM

CHAPTER V THE ANALYTICAL ARGUMENT

CHAPTER VI THE INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT

CHAPTER VII EXAMPLES OF SYMBOLISM

CHAPTER VIII EXAMPLES OF SYMBOLISM CONTINUED

CHAPTER IX SOME OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED

CHAPTER X DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLISM

CHAPTER XI GENERAL CONCLUSION

Here beginneth the First Book of GULIELMUS DURANDUS his RATIONALE of the DIVINE OFFICES.

CHAPTER I OF A CHURCH AND ITS PARTS

CHAPTER II OF THE ALTAR

CHAPTER III OF PICTURES, AND IMAGES, AND CURTAINS, AND THE ORNAMENTS OF CHURCHES

CHAPTER IV OF BELLS

CHAPTER V OF CEMETERIES AND OTHER PLACES, SACRED AND RELIGIOUS

CHAPTER VI OF THE DEDICATION OF A CHURCH

CHAPTER VII OF THE CONSECRATION OF AN ALTAR

CHAPTER VIII OF CONSECRATIONS AND UNCTIONS

CHAPTER IX OF THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

END OF THE FIRST BOOK

EPILOGUE TO THE WHOLE WORK [Footnote 558]

SUPPLEMENT

CHAPTER I OF A CHURCH

CHAPTER II OF THE DEDICATION OF A CHURCH

APPENDIX A CHANCELS

APPENDIX B ORIENTATION

APPENDIX C ON THE DESIGN OF THE ANALOGIUM, AMBO OR ROOD LOFT, AND THE READING OF THE GOSPEL FROM IT

APPENDIX D ON THE SIGN OF THE CROSS

APPENDIX E ON THE FOUR COLOURS USED IN CHURCH HANGINGS, ETC.

APPENDIX F OF BELLS BEING NOT RUNG FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE EASTER

APPENDIX G

APPENDIX H ON THE DEDICATION OF A CHURCH

APPENDIX I ADDENDA

INDEX

[Transcriber's notes:]

This work is derived from files on the Internet Archive:
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Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book.

The honorific "Mr" is without a following period in the original. The period has been inserted in this transcription.

[End Transcriber's notes.]

THE SYMBOLISM

OF

Churches and Church Ornaments