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


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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.