The Hargrett Hours’s French prayer that runs from folios 54r through 55v (and which I will refer to as “Tres piteux sire”) has been one…
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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…
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…
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…
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always wondered where the prayers in Books of Hours come from. When we talk about them in class, I…
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…
The Beaufort Beauchamp Book of Hours (British Library MS A XVIII, hereafter referred to as BBOH) is an impressive example of an English royal books…
Suspend your sense of disbelief for a moment and imagine that you are Marie of Burgundy. You are sitting in your chamber, studiously poring over…
Looking at a piece of art can be a stimulating experience in that it can take you to another place in time or lead you…