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…
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) 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…
(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) Thanks to support from the Willson Center, I’m spending the second half of June in London and environs, looking at a whole range of medieval manuscripts. Most are manuscripts used in English nunneries, but I’m also examining a number of 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) 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…
