I’m simply chuffed to be heading to the University of Missouri in early March. I had the good fortune to be awarded an SEC Faculty Travel Grant, which allows faculty members in different SEC schools to visit each other for research purposes. I’ll be doing a number of events with Mizzou’s MARS and English faculty and students, including a workshop on — you guessed it! — Books of Hours. Their Special Collections Library has a lovely collection of fragments and codices, including two full Books of Hours and several fragments, plus a number of liturgical manuscripts related at more or less distant removes from lay prayerbooks. (You can view one of their Books of Hours – a lovely workaday volume from fifteenth-century Italy, featured above – online.) For more on the event, take a look at the workshop blurb on their blog.
Watch this space for more on the event and the manuscript treasures the University of Missouri holds!