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This elaborately decorated Book of Hours ("The Vosper Hours") is a late fifteenth-century manuscript from Langres, France. While many Books of Hours contained materials such as owners' names and hand-written texts and annotations, this manuscript has…

This particular Book of Hours was likely used for private devotional practice and worship within the confines of its owner's home. While there are no identifying marks or clear indications of the book's original owner, the book's contents suggest…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…