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MS A6: Devotion Through Time
The calendar appears at the very beginning of a Book of Hours, preceding all prayers and other devotional texts. A calendar helps track feast days, or daily celebrations of saints, confessors, and important patrons or relics. Every calendar contains…
MS A6: Handheld Devotion
Purchased by KU in 1955 and previously owned by Baron Charles Despines (1777–1852) of the Académie Florimontane of Savoie, MS A6 is a unique example of a late-medieval Book of Hours. Small in size (110mm x 85mm), this handwritten, hand-painted,…
MS A6: Navigating Illuminations
The seven illuminated pages in MS A6 are small, yet they contain a great amount of detail and are delicately painted. The marginalia and large initial details have analogies with the contemporary Vosper Hours in their margins filled with acanthus…
MS A6: Private and Portable
MS A6 nestles easily in the reader's hands, making it a very intimate object that would give a single reader at a time a view of the text and images. Its petite stature made it easily portable, furthering the opportunity for the manuscript’s owner…
MS A6: Words of Worship
Filled with Psalms, prayers to the Virgin, Hours of the Passion, invocations of the saints and the clergy, and memorial services for the dead, the texts contained in Books of Hours put Christian worship into the hands of the laity. As a means of…