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
learn via Coffee with a Codex
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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


Dot Porter’s video facimiles and her ideas around invoking multimodalities in conveying a sense of one thing with another inspired this video, which Dot facilitated by lending me her equipment, space, and time.