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…
One of the most compelling aspects of our research into the suffrages was learning about the saints contained within the Hargrett Hours. We have an extensive list of forty men and women, so Grace used David Farmer’s Oxford Dictionary of Saints to get some baseline information on all of them. From there, she chose a…
“Ohio is one of the areas of the country richest in medieval manuscripts, with more than 2200 codices and 2400 leaves in at least thirty-three collections. In fact, once you leave the East Coast, Ohio has the largest number of medieval manuscripts per person and per square mile in the United States.” – Lisa Davis, “Manuscript…
As the precinct delves further into the enigmatic Hargrett Hours investigation, we detectives of Squad Calendar have a hunch. Here’s what we know: the object of interest is a medieval manuscript called the Hargrett Hours that dates to the 15th century. It’s a Book of Hours, which is a kind of prayer manuscript intended for…
The Fall 2018 iteration of the Hargrett Hours Project has been working all semester towards a digitized edition of our lovely Book of Hours. Lo and behold, it’s here! This website is the product of two months’ worth of work divided into (roughly) three parts: Team Website, Team Gospels, and Team Prayer, respectively working to create the website and…
Co-authored by Kristina Going and Katherine Haire with Kara Krewer and Ceciley Pangburn As young, naive English majors fresh from our codicology lessons, we approached the Hargrett Hours Gospel section ready to put our new skills to the test. We rolled up our sleeves, put on our reading glasses, and dove in, expecting to observe…
As the Fall 2018 semester comes to a close and we look back at the work our team has accomplished, I think the biggest takeaway for Team Website is that, hey, building a website isn’t easy. No wonder coders get paid lots of money. But, in all seriousness, while we didn’t code the website ourselves,…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) If there’s one thing that most people who write on medieval Books of Hours can agree upon, it’s that Books of Hours need to include a certain set of features. The all-important feature being the Hours of Virgin. The Metropolitan Museum of…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The central research project for this semester’s Hargrett Hours course has been the Passion material in the manuscript. Most centrally, we’re interested in how the six prayers and the Passion account from the Gospel of John fit into the broader landscape of…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) How the heck did it get to be the fourth week of the semester already? We are rolling under a full head of steam in this semester’s manuscript course; the students are deep into the structure of Books of Hours and just…
