The Book the Medieval Book of Hours Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
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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
- Office of the Dead
- Explore on Your Own
- Suffrages
- Explore on Your Own
- 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
- Introduction
- Legal Manuscripts
- Italian Humanist Scripts
- Proto-Gothic (Transitional Gothic)
- Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule
- Carolingian Minuscule
- Anglicana Formata
- Benevenan Script
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