[Bell Historians] Help needed

Richard Smith richard at ex-parrot.com
Wed Jun 18 14:58:52 BST 2025



On Wed 18 Jun 2025 14:43, Joshua Burson via Bell-historians wrote:

> /Most /of the rest of the text is a (possibly slightly abridged) copy of 
> Chapter 4 of William Durand's Rationale Divinorum Officiorum (c. 1280).  

That was my conclusion too.  I'd been comparing the text with this copy 
of Durand, and while there lots of small changes to the wording – more 
than could be explained by careless copying – it's unambiguously derived 
from Durand:

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/TIRVM2RZH737XW3XV43C4YJK7LRBBNRU

Richard




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