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


Download any folia you like from OPenn, a digital resource developed and hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. 


This link takes you to the OPenn page for the book of hours.


OPenn contains complete sets of high-resolution archival images of cultural heritage material from the collections of its contributing institutions, along with machine-readable descriptive and technical metadata. All materials on OPenn are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons licenses as Free Cultural Works.