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


Touch the book of hours with your own hands during an in-person visit to the reading room in the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

This link takes you to the library’s catalogue entry for the book of hours.

Once on the page, clicking “Request to View” takes you to the Special Collection Viewing Request page. 

You can submit a viewing request in the Aeon Special Collections system by creating an account and requesting an appointment time to view the item in the reading room.