(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The Suffrage group made some good headway establishing the original owner(s) and provenance of the Hargrett Hours Suffrages this semester: the inclusion of local saints like Genevieve pointed to Paris and the Suffrages’ focus on the figures of the Holy Family (Saint Anne, Saints Mary…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The semester is wrapping up here. Last finals are being administered today; students are packing up to head home for Christmas break; professors are grading frantically. So it’s a good day for a final post of the semester that sums up the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) French Popular Piety: The Hargrett Hours The Hargrett Hours is a non-aristocratic, fifteenth century French manuscript. Like the Codicology and Calendar groups, our Suffrage group concluded that the HH was likely created in or around Paris because the suffrages include Saint Genevieve (the patron saint of Paris) and Saint…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) When we initially began researching the Hargrett Hours, our group’s primary goal was producing a solid transcription of our section: scriptural passages and accompanying prayers. In this process, we identified the majority of our section (ff 41v-56v) as John’s account of the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) At the beginning of our project, our group was assigned to study the Hours of the Virgin found within fol. 13v and fol. 41v of the University of Georgia Hargrett Book of Hours MS 836. In the context of Books of Hours, 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…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) One of codicology’s more intractable problems thus far has been to determine and compile collation data for the Hargrett Hours. We have been documenting: (1) the number of quires, (2) the composition of those quires and (3) whether anything we would expect,…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) This week, we’ve begun the Hargrett Hours project for real. Or, to be more precise, we’ve geared up this week with preliminary work and organizing. Tuesday, the students got to visit the Hargrett Hours for the first time; Wednesday, they learned what…
