Meaning of Pontifical | Babel Free

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A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

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“Both ordines are related to an ordo in a pontifical in Reims, the Ordo of 1200 (Ordo XIX). The latter was to be consulted again and again, and its formulas were to have⟳ a marked effect upon the French ceremony; […]”

“William Durandus, bishop of Mende in the south of France, compiled a pontifical in three books. William never intended his work⟳ to be a universal pontifical, but its clarity of arrangement and quality of substance, along with […]”

“If the editio princeps was an attempt⟳ to create⟳ an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.”

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