Making (and remaking) texts past, present, and future through a Quattrocento book of hours


read in a IIIF viewer
download archival images of all folia
watch a video facsimile
swivel a 3D model
touch during an in-person visit
collate using VisColl
speculate missing/replaced folia
compare to other books of hours
about the project

created by Julia Pelosi-Thorpe
during her 2023–2024 fellowship with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts


The below screenshots from the VCEditor—VisColl—collation of this manuscript give a visual sense of ways this codex has been made and remade. You can view the full model here.

NB: Red designates folia that have been replaced, and dashed lines designate folia that are missing.