An Ecclesiastical Elucidation of the Matters Pertaining to the Office of the Church, in Four Books

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Original title: Elucidatorium ecclesiasticum, ad officium ecclesiae pertinentia planius exponens, & quatuor libros complectens A four-book Latin manual for the whole Divine Office and the Mass, expounding the canonical hours, the hymnal and sequentiary traditions, and the Canon of the Mass. Built on the conviction that the Church sings its daily hymns, canticles, sequences, and prayers without understanding them, it applies humanist textual criticism (emendatio ad limam), metrical and prosodic scansion, and Hebrew-Greek-Latin philology to restore corrupted texts, name their authors, and draw out the typological, sacramental, Trinitarian, Marian, and hagiological doctrine each carries, all in the service of intelligent worship (psallere sapienter) and a sharpened orthodoxy. It is dedicated to Johannes Gosztonyi, Bishop of Győr, and reflects contemporary anxieties, including the Ottoman threat and the Crown of Thorns preserved at Paris. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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ELVCIDATORIVM ECCLESIASTICVM, AD OFFICIVM ecclesiæ pertinentia planius exponens: & quatuor libros comple- etens. Primus, hymnos de tempore & sanctis per totu[m] anni spacium, adiecta explanatione, declarat. Secundus, nonulla cantica Ecclesiastica, antiphonas & responsoria: vnà cum benedictionibus candelarum, cærei paschalis & fontium: familiariter explanat. QVARTA AEDITIO. PARISIIS. Apud Ponceum le Preux, in via S. Iacobi sub intersignio Lupi, è regione Maturinorum. 1548.