[Transcriber's notes:]
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[End Transcriber's notes.]
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 AND NOTES
BY
THE REV. JOHN MASON NEALE, B.A.
AND
THE REV. BENJAMIN WEBB, B.A.
OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
New York
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
743 AND 745 BROADWAY
1893
DEDICATED TO
THE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY
BY
TWO OF ITS FOUNDERS
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