French Books of Hours

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“…Tasked with overseeing the development of an emergent ballistics technology, the artillery cannon, Galiot, unsurprisingly, also sought to invoke the help of "military" saints who could guarantee protection against disaster in battle. 11 Dying in a state of sin was one of the fundamental fears of the medieval Christian community and an especial concern for soldiers. The main purpose of the Office for the Dead (comprising the hours of Vespers, Matins, and Lauds) was to provide suffrage to the dead and ease their purgatorial torments.…”

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The Three Living and the Three Dead in theHoraeof Galiot de Genouillac (Rylands Latin MS 38)

Gordon¹

2018

Source: Notes in the History of Art

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The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead was one of the most influential poetic and pictorial traditions of the later Middle Ages. Its moralistic message-repent, for wealth and power count for nothing in the end-ensured that it could be utilized in a wide variety of media and contexts. Appropriately, Three Living and Three Dead illuminations were often included in books of hours (horae) as devotional aids. Although not as prevalent as representations of the funeral or the deathbed, they were usually employed as frontispieces to the prayer cycles in the Office for the Dead. This article analyzes the exquisite yet curiously source: notes in the history of art. winter 2018.

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The Three Living and the Three Dead in theHoraeof Galiot de Genouillac (Rylands Latin MS 38)

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2018

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“…23 In their overlapping uses, both recording devotional practice and providing a personal script for prayer, where readers could recite a script written by another, record their own scripts, or copy others, these texts contain processes by which, Virginia Reinburg argues, 'readers can be said to be the authors of the texts they read, and the prayers they recited.' 24 If it provides a new perspective on women's marginalia, thinking about this archive also puts pressure on the ways in which we define reading in the period. Rather than an understanding of reading only as interpretation oriented towards real-life events and actions, women's daily reading or recitation of Latin prayers in the Book of Hours, in an often unfamiliar language, yet surrounded by vernacular signatures, obits, prayers and poems, indicates a broader range of practices associated with reading.…”

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‘Le pouvoir de faire dire’: Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots’ Book of Hours

Smith¹

2014

Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing

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In this essay, I would like to begin to examine a third significant archive: Mary Queen of Scots' diverse collection of marginalia in her Book of Hours. 3 This illuminated 15 th century manuscript was given to Mary during her time in the French court and was added to over her lifetime and beyond. 4 It contains three different types of marginalia: the queen's independent marks of ownership, ten other signatures, and fourteen quatrains, or fragments of quatrains, some signed and all written in French in Mary Stuart's very clear italic hand. This article examines all three of these types of marginalia in order to reconstruct what Jason Scott-Warren describes as 'the anthropology of the book': as evidence not only for reading but also for understanding the place of this Book of Hours in the individual, social and material fabric of the lives of its owners and readers over half a century. 5 Although this is a relatively large collection of marginalia within a single text, Mary Stuarts' Book of Hours has received little critical attention, despite the last decade's increased critical focus on the material traces of book use. 6 Its absence within English literary histories derives at least in part because its poems are in French, but written by a sovereign who moved between the French, Scottish and English courts, and as such they occupy an uncertain status in nationally focused genealogies of women's writing. The marginalia also occurs in a devotional text, one of the hundreds of surviving private prayer books owned and routinely annotated by women, which themselves form a rich and intriguing archive only now beginning to be considered as part of early modern women's use of the spaces of the book.

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Some Economic Aspects to Private Prayer in Shakespeare

Sullivan

2020

Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

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One of the new subgenres developed around the end of the sixteenth century was advice on composing private prayer. It explored concrete events in daily life, freshly modelling the spiritual opportunities or risks in trade. Less laudably, an economic register was extended to the assurance of prevalency in such prayer. Contrasting positions on bargaining in or with private prayer are explored by Shakespeare in Henry VIII, Measure for Measure, and Henry V.

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French Books of Hours

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The Three Living and the Three Dead in theHoraeof Galiot de Genouillac (Rylands Latin MS 38)

The Three Living and the Three Dead in theHoraeof Galiot de Genouillac (Rylands Latin MS 38)

‘Le pouvoir de faire dire’: Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots’ Book of Hours

Some Economic Aspects to Private Prayer in Shakespeare

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