(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) There are days that I feel like Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring, searching, sifting through information for days with only a little to go on to begin with. But then, then comes the day when all of that information begins to…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) It’s relieving when things start to fall into place. Up until now, the research I’ve been working on has felt like the beginning of a television crime drama. Everything I know is pinned to a wall, with some red string connecting bits…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Exciting news! Ring the chapel bell! UGA’s Special Collections Library has purchased a new manuscript! This new codex is a lovely little Book of Hours, probably made in Bruges or elsewhere in the Low Countries. It’s a little more typical than the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Hey! Welcome to our research project. We’re Katie and Madison, undergraduates here at the UGA. Madison is an English major with a medieval literature area of emphasis, and Katie is double majoring in English and Classical Culture. We were both in Dr.…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The Suffrage group made some good headway establishing the original owner(s) and provenance of the Hargrett Hours Suffrages this semester: the inclusion of local saints like Genevieve pointed to Paris and the Suffrages’ focus on the figures of the Holy Family (Saint Anne, Saints Mary…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The semester is wrapping up here. Last finals are being administered today; students are packing up to head home for Christmas break; professors are grading frantically. So it’s a good day for a final post of the semester that sums up the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) French Popular Piety: The Hargrett Hours The Hargrett Hours is a non-aristocratic, fifteenth century French manuscript. Like the Codicology and Calendar groups, our Suffrage group concluded that the HH was likely created in or around Paris because the suffrages include Saint Genevieve (the patron saint of Paris) and Saint…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) When we initially began researching the Hargrett Hours, our group’s primary goal was producing a solid transcription of our section: scriptural passages and accompanying prayers. In this process, we identified the majority of our section (ff 41v-56v) as John’s account of the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) At the beginning of our project, our group was assigned to study the Hours of the Virgin found within fol. 13v and fol. 41v of the University of Georgia Hargrett Book of Hours MS 836. In the context of Books of Hours, the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Through our research into the calendar of the Hargrett Books of Hours, we found it bears a striking similarity to the Paris Missal and other use of Paris calendars; it, however, also contains differences that make us confident it is use of Paris. The…