Imagine you’re living in Paris in the fifteenth century. You have a little extra money set aside. How do you deepen your relationship with God while also publicly showing off your devotion? You want a Book of Hours. Books of Hours were the most common type of personal book in the Middle Ages, owned by…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Although I was not primarily jetting about English manuscript archives to look at Books of Hours, I did manage to squeeze in a few amidst my primary task (looking at manuscripts owned by nuns). All told, I examined eleven Books of Hours,…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Exciting news! Ring the chapel bell! UGA’s Special Collections Library has purchased a new manuscript! This new codex is a lovely little Book of Hours, probably made in Bruges or elsewhere in the Low Countries. It’s a little more typical than the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Through our research into the calendar of the Hargrett Books of Hours, we found it bears a striking similarity to the Paris Missal and other use of Paris calendars; it, however, also contains differences that make us confident it is use of Paris. The…
