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 basics about books of hours in general can be found in sites like:

- Erik Drigsdahl’s introduction and tutorial for the  Center for Håndskriftstudier i Danmark (CHD),

-  the tutorials and events of Les Enluminures, which offer the largest and widest-ranging inventory of text manuscripts currently on the market, and

- even the “Book of Hours” wikipedia page, Encyclopedia Brittanica page, and Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Musem page. 



For more detail: Francesca Manzari expertly eplains what makes Italian books of hours unique and provides invaluable resources such as a database and bibliography.



Aaron Macks devotes a site to the calendars commonly found in books of hours: Corpus Kalendarium.