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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…