Summerfield B491: Borders and Cultural Dynamics
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Title
Summerfield B491: Borders and Cultural Dynamics
Description
This Book of Hours printed in the early sixteenth century was the product of a collaboration between the Parisian bookmakers Philippe Pigouchet and Simon Vostre. The pair worked together during an eighteen-year period to create hundreds of Books of Hours for the public to consume. Because these works were mass-produced and significantly less expensive than the handwritten and custom painted books popular among the elite, they appealed to a broad audience. Pigouchet, an engraver, is credited with creating the metalcuts used to print the complex and various illustrations that fill this book. This imagery, particularly the marginalia, reveals a rich collection of both religious and secular themes that were in dialogue with a range of contemporary media.
Source
Summerfield B491
Publisher
Spencer Research Library Special Collections, University of Kansas
Type
Book of Hours
Identifier
Spencer Research Library Special Collections, Summerfield B491
Items in the Summerfield B491: Borders and Cultural Dynamics Collection
Summerfield B491: Visualizing Borders, Structural Innovation
Networks and cycles of imagery that correspond to textual divisions delineate the structure of Summerfield B491. Full-page miniatures mark the beginnings of each important textual section and canonical hour, and a continuous flow of carefully…
Summerfield B491: Hybrid Marginal Cycles, Artistically Framed
Pigouchet’s engravings participated in a visual culture established by artists who worked across diverse media. For example, the marginal hunting scenes that reoccur throughout Summerfield B491 are strikingly similar to hunting imagery in…
Summerfield B491: Hybrid Marginal Cycles, Enriching Devotion
Books of Hours were intended to serve for private reading and devotion. Innovating freely with language, borders, and modular blocks, Philippe Pigouchet enriched the significance of this particular Book of Hours. For instance, he drew on the…
Summerfield B491: Devotion, Secularity, and Readership
Pigouchet´s Book of Hours was a medieval best-seller that gave lay viewers increased exposure to motifs that played a practical and devotional function within their personal prayer books. Indeed, the proliferation, distribution, and acquisition of…
Summerfield B491: Presentation at the Temple, detail of fol. fviir
This Book of Hours printed in the early sixteenth century was the product of a collaboration between the Parisian bookmakers Philippe Pigouchet and Simon Vostre. The pair worked together during an eighteen-year period to create hundreds of Books of…