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


This 3D model was made with photogrammetry by Chris Lippa, whose photographs of the book of hours are used by the University of Pennsylvania in their Colenda and OPenn digital repositories.