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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesHarvard University, Cambridge

The Syllabus

  • Welcome to 'The Book'
  • Welcome to Houghton Library
  • Welcome to the Fine Arts Library
  • Introducing Mirador
  • Conservation
  • Important Pre-Course Survey

  • Introducing Books of Hours
  • Imaging and Imagining Prayer
  • Comparing Books of Hours
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Bindings
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Calendrics
  • Zodiac
  • The Roman Calendar
  • Calculating the Date of Easter
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Gospel Sequences
  • The Origin of Gospel Sequences
  • Explore Gospel Sequences on Your Own

  • Common Prayers: Obsecro te and O itemerata
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Introduction
  • The Hour of Matins (midnight)
  • The Hour of Lauds (sunrise)
  • The Hour of Prime (6:00 AM)
  • The Hour of Terce (9:00 AM)
  • The Hour of Sext (noon)
  • The Hour of None (3:00 PM)
  • The Hour of Vespers (sunset)
  • The Hour of Compline (before bed)

  • Supplemental Hours
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Penitential Psalms
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Litany
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Petitions

  • Office of the Dead
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Suffrages
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Decoration

  • Liturgical Use

  • Introduction to Regional Variation
  • Flemish Books of Hours
  • The Greatest Book of Hours in Harvard’s Collections
  • Italian Books of Hours
  • English Books of Hours

  • Introduction
  • Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
  • Petites Heures
  • Très Belles Heures de Notre Dame
  • Turin-Milan Hours
  • Brussels Hours
  • Belles Heures
  • Très Riches Heures
  • Grandes Heures
  • Bedford Hours
  • Hours of Anne of Brittany

  • Introduction
  • Prayer Book of Otto III
  • Prayer Book of Hildegard of Bingen
  • The St. Albans Psalter
  • Book Altar of Philip the Good
  • Prayer Books
  • Explore on Your Own

  • Introduction
  • Pontificals
  • Breviaries
  • Missals
  • Graduals

  • Quiz (44 Questions)

  • Introduction
  • Legal Manuscripts
  • Italian Humanist Scripts
  • Proto-Gothic (Transitional Gothic)
  • Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule
  • Carolingian Minuscule
  • Anglicana Formata
  • Benevenan Script

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