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


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, her space, and her time.

Dot has also generously agreed to feature this manuscript in her Coffee With A Codex series in July 2024.