![]() The book of hours is a Christian devotional book used to pray the canonical hours. Bequeathed to the Society in 1769 by the Revd Charles Lyttleton, Bishop of Carlisle and President of the Society (1765-8). EUR 150,00 excl.An early 15th-century French book of hours ( MS13, Society of Antiquaries of London) open to an illustration of the 'Adoration of the Magi'. In: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 72) Mary and Richard Rouse, Post-Mortem Inventories as a Source for the Production of Manuscripts and Printed Books of Hours Brown, The Devotional Books of Claude Gouffier: The Morgan Hours (New York, Morgan Library and Museum, M. Thierry Claerr, L’édition d’Heures du 21 avril 1505, une œuvre charnière dans la production de Thielman Kerver?Īriane Bergeron-Foote, De la fortune de quatre bois gravés: de Paris 1519 à Rouen c. Todor Petev, A Group of Hybrid Manuscripts Illustrated with Woodcuts from Antwerp Broekhuijsen, Decoration Programmes in Books of Hours by the Masters of the Dark Eyesīronwyn Stocks, Devotional Emphasis and Distinctive Variations in the Illustration of the Hours of the Virgin in Italian Books of Hours James Marrow, Superimposed Cycles of Marginal Illustration in Late Medieval Horae: Function and Historyĭr. Saskia von Bergen, The Use of Stamps in Bruges Book ProductionĮberhard König, Twins in Attribution: A New Fashion or a Means to Better Understanding? The Case of the Grandes Heures de Rohan Marie-Françoise Damongeot, La circulation des modèles iconographiques: l’exemple d’un livre d’Heures parisien (BnF MS N.a.l.3115)ĭr Mara Hofmann, Matteo de Milano Between Ferrara and Rome – The Hours of Dionora of Urbino (London, British Library, Yates Thompson 7) ![]() As-Vijvers, Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia von Wulfskercke Marc Gil, Picardie-Hainaut: Quelques remarques sur les livres d’heures produits par le Maitre de Rambures et Simon MarmionĪnne Margreet W. Anne Korteweg, Books of Hours from the Northern Netherlands Reconsidered: the Uses of Utrecht and Windesheim and Geert Grote’s Role as a Translator Clark, Beyond Saints: Variant Litany Readings and the Localization of Late Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours, the Case of the d’Orges Hoursĭr. Jeffrey Hamburger, Another Perspective: The Book of Hours in Germanyįrancesca Manzari, Italian Books of Hours and Prayer Books in the Fourteenth Century Centers of Production: England, Germany, and Italy: Wieck, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: The Manuscript that Changed the World The Prehistory of Books of Hours and the Growth of their Modern-Day Appreciation:Īdelaide Bennett, Some Perspectives on the Origins of Books of Hours in France in the Thirteenth-CenturyĬhristopher de Hamel, Books of Hours and the Art Market from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day Sandra Hindman, Introduction: State of the Question It is excatly this diversity, which is stresses in this new collection of essays, which provides essential studies on the production, use, and evolution of the Books of Hours in a wide variety of contexts. However, in a new book to be published in November 2013 one author cautions against this language considering it as misleading, as use and character differed from one geographical location to another. ![]() In view of this it has become commonplace to describe the Book of Hours as the “medieval bestseller” par excellence. Some of them were modest, made by near-factories, while others were simply unique masterpieces produced by accomplished artists. During this period, nearly every European family of certain means owned one, while royals, nobles and wealthy merchants might own libraries full of them. ![]() 1240, when the first book of Hours began to appear and until the counter-reformation, when Pope Pius V prohibited the use of all existing Books of Hours. The heyday of the Book of Hours lasted from c. Many were passed down through generations. Most Books of Hours, however, were also used for personal notations and scribbles marking births, marriages, deaths etc. As a minimum though, they contained the “little Hours” of the Virgin, the gradual Psalms, the Penitential psalms, Litany of the saints and the Office of the Dead. The contents grew out of the psalter but included a mixed variety of other types of material like, hymns, lessons, biblical readings, calendars etc. Book of Hours were private prayer books, which filled the need for the medieval lay public in search of a devotional life akin to what clerics experienced but without taking actual vows.
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