This particular Book of Hours is London, British Library, Add. MS 54782. It’s often called “The Hastings Hours” due to its only known owner during…
Category: Hargrett Hours
All reports, interim and final, on the contents of the Hargrett Hours
The Carrying of the Cross, Egerton MS 1070, folio 124v A full facsimile of this Book of Hours, from which all images in this post…
By: Emily Walls The first thing our class did this semester was a “Manuscript Boot Camp” where we spent almost the entirety of the…
By: Georgia Earley As discussed here, each member of our class was asked to ‘adopt a manuscript’ this semester. When I heard about this assignment,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s May, classes are over, graduates are tossing their caps in the air and walking under the arch in celebration of their four plus years…
Y’all, this semester has been wild. That’s the hip way to describe this experience, yes? If you, hypothetical reader, told me in January that I’d spend a…