Imagine you’re living in Paris in the fifteenth century. You have a little extra money set aside. How do you deepen your relationship with God while also publicly showing off your devotion? You want a Book of Hours. Books of Hours were the most common type of personal book in the Middle Ages, owned by…
One of the most compelling aspects of our research into the suffrages was learning about the saints contained within the Hargrett Hours. We have an extensive list of forty men and women, so Grace used David Farmer’s Oxford Dictionary of Saints to get some baseline information on all of them. From there, she chose a…
“Ohio is one of the areas of the country richest in medieval manuscripts, with more than 2200 codices and 2400 leaves in at least thirty-three collections. In fact, once you leave the East Coast, Ohio has the largest number of medieval manuscripts per person and per square mile in the United States.” – Lisa Davis, “Manuscript…
As the precinct delves further into the enigmatic Hargrett Hours investigation, we detectives of Squad Calendar have a hunch. Here’s what we know: the object of interest is a medieval manuscript called the Hargrett Hours that dates to the 15th century. It’s a Book of Hours, which is a kind of prayer manuscript intended for…