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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…