These folios and their aesthetics reveal the intersection between public and private spaces. Printed on vellum for book publisher Germain Hardouyn during the sixteenth century, this Book of Hours also enters a common space between manuscript and…
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…
A reader or viewer opening Summerfield C65 would notice three specific characteristics: it is a printed book, it has been well used, and it was transformed into a hybrid object blending print and manuscript culture. But, what does its appearance say…
Several changes personalized Summerfield C65 after its initial printing, ranging from the painting of several printed images and rubrics to the inscriptions added by subsequent owners. Among the most distinctive of these is the insertion of a round…
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…