Google Directory - Society > History > By Time Period > Middle Ages > Religion > Christianity

Directory Help
Search only in Books of HoursSearch the Web

Books of Hours

Society > History > By Time Period > Middle Ages > Religion > Christianity > Books of Hours

Go to Directory Home

Categories

Individual Manuscripts (32)

Web Pages

View in Google PageRank order Viewing in alphabetical order

A Few Minutes on Books of Hours - http://www.candesign.com/pwhaynes/
A introductory essay by Patrick Haynes.

A Hypertext Book of Hours - http://members.tripod.com/~gunhouse/hourstxt/hrstoc.htm
The complete text for the Use of Rome in Latin and English based on a 16th-century English Primer.

Book of Hours Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania - http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/schoenberg/schoenberg_bohtext.html
Books of Hours in the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Images and commentary.

Books of Hours and the Transition to Print Culture - http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/portfolio/gordon/hours/
An online essay comparing printed books of hours with their manuscript precedents.

Books of Hours in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague - http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/introduction/introduction5.html
A general introduction to Books of Hours, with links to hundreds of high-quality images from manuscripts in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek.

Books of Hours in the Wellesley College Library - http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/SpecColl/BookOfHours/bookhome.html
A selection of images from five different Books of Hours, with a brief introduction.

Books of Hours: Introduction and Tutorial - http://www.chd.dk/tutor/
Erik Drigsdahl's guide to the scholarly study of Books of Hours.

Depicting Devotion: Illuminated Books of Hours from the Middle Ages - http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/exhibits/illuminated/index.html
An on-line exhibition of Books of Hours in the collection of the Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, St. Louis.

Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library - http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol4/hutton.html
Scholarly essay on three late-15th-century Italian Books of Hours, by Paula Hutton.

Hore Beate Marie Virginis - Index to a Selection of Uses - http://www.chd.dk/use/
A scholarly index to local variations in the texts of Books of Hours.

Leaves of Gold: Books of Hours - http://www.leavesofgold.org/gallery/boh/
Images and catalogue entries for nineteen books of hours. Part of an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts from Philadelphia collections.

Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library - http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/painted_prayers/homepage.html
Web site of an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts - http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol6/6ch1.html
Scholarly essay on the decoration of late-15th- and early-16th-century Books of Hours from France and Flanders, by Robert Calkins.

The Medieval Bestseller - http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/books/
Online version of an exhibition of Books of Hours in the Getty Museum.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.

Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor