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.

ταυτα δὲ πάντα τύποι συνέβαινον ἐκείνοις.

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.