The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A translation of…

The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A translation of the first book of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum Introductory essay, notes and illustrations by The Rev. John Mason Neale and The Rev. Benjamin Webb

Leeds T W Green 1843

Original blind stamped cloth. Red edged title page, cxxxv +(1) + 252pp. Corners bumped. Repaired at head and base of spine. Bookplate of the Library of the Central Council for the Care of Churches. Title page and next three pages worn at edges else good copy of this study written as context to the growing interest in ecclesiology by the Camden Society. The original book was written in 1286. This translation covers the first book of eight which comprised the whole. The first part deals with the church, altar, pictures, bells, churchyard, etc. The whole is a key treatise on the ritual of the medieval church.

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