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Ownership in the Margins
Description
An account of the resource
Although Summerfield C65 is a devotional book, owners seemed compelled to express their ownership of it. The unique penmanship of sequential book owners reveals how subsequent caretakers inscribed themselves into this Book of Hours. These 500-year-old pages contain twelve long-dead voices who wrote claims of ownership, signatures, short poems, and reminders of God or other saints – all written to establish their individual, personal connection to their book. These inscriptions vary in placement, located either on the blank pages towards the front cover or at the end of the book, in the margins of significant pages, or alongside full-page illuminations. Each new hand brings a new layer to the text, allowing for readers of today to consider, for instance, who was the nun “Judith de Croy” and how did she acquire this text at the now-destroyed “parish in Tournai"? Who was the “Mademoiselle” who received this book as a gift from “Quintin de Montmorency,” who never wanted her to forget him? And who was the mysterious character who struck out previous owners' signatures on the front page, only to emphasize his own? Each hand brings a new voice to life, and through transcribing and translating these voices, we can further understand the use and afterlife of this Book of Hours.
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Summerfield C65
Publisher
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Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Date
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c. 1505
Type
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Book of Hours
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Spencer Summerfield C65, opening: flyleaf-a<sub>i</sub>r
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Title
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Summerfield C65: A Hybrid of Manuscript and Print
Source
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Summerfield C65
Publisher
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Spencer Research Library Special Collections, University of Kansas
Date
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c. 1505
Type
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Book of Hours
Identifier
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Spencer Research Library Special Collections, Summerfield C65
Description
An account of the resource
The colophon on the final page of Summerfield C65 states that it was produced on 1 October 1505 by Guillaume Anabat, a book printer in Paris, for Germain Hardouyn, a prominent book publisher. Although printed solely in black ink, Hardouyn had many of the full-page illuminations and miniatures colorfully painted to resemble traditional hand-produced manuscripts. After its initial creation, the book passed through the hands of diverse owners, who displayed their ownership by sewing in additional images, inscribing their names, or annotating the pages with simple religious poems. While mass-produced, this unique Book of Hours became a personalized devotional object to each subsequent caretaker.
Still Image
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Ink on vellum, printed Book of Hours
Dublin Core
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Title
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Summerfield C65: Ownership in the Margins
Description
An account of the resource
A sequence of owners seemed compelled to express their ownership of Summerfield C65. Their unique penmanship reveals how subsequent caretakers inscribed themselves into this Book of Hours. These five-hundred-year-old pages contain twelve long-dead voices who wrote claims of ownership, signatures, short poems, and reminders of God or other saints – all written to establish their individual, personal connection to their book. These inscriptions vary in placement, located either on the blank pages towards the front cover or at the end of the book, in the margins of significant pages, or alongside full-page illuminations. Each new hand adds a new layer to the text, allowing for readers of today to consider, for instance, who was the nun “Judith de Croy” and how did she acquire this text at the now-destroyed “parish in Tournai"? Who was the “Mademoiselle” who received this book as a gift from “Quintin de Montmorency,” who never wanted her to forget him? And who was the mysterious character who struck out previous owners' signatures on the front page, only to emphasize his own? Each hand brings a new voice to life, and through transcribing and translating these voices, we can further understand the use and afterlife of this Book of Hours.
Source
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Summerfield C65
Publisher
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Spencer Research Library Special Collections, University of Kansas
Date
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c. 1505
Type
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Book of Hours
Identifier
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Spencer Research Library Special Collections, Summerfield C65, fols. flyleaf–a<sub>i</sub>r, a<sub>viii</sub>v–b<sub>i</sub>r, d<sub>iv</sub>v–d<sub>v</sub>r, e<sub>i</sub>v–e<sub>ii</sub>r, h<sub>iii</sub>v–h<sub>iv</sub>r, k<sub>vii</sub>v–k<sub>viii</sub>r, back flyleaf