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All feasts in a medieval kalendar are in the genitive case.
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The first thing I saw upon opening the book was a Paris kalendar (spelled with a k-), which is (typically, for a Paris kalendar) completely FULL of names. Let me share a few things with you about this amazing manuscript in the short time I have. So, Horae = “Hours” or “Book of Hours.” I know it sounds weird, especially to a Latinist. The Latin word for hour is hora, a first-declension (feminine) noun with an –ae plural. Sometimes a Book of Hours is called a Horae. The eight hours are Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. It’s called a Book of Hours because the key text is the “Hours of the Virgin,” basically a selection of Psalms (usually three of them) and related utterances recited at eight “hours” of the day. Unfortunately, none of the online images shows these amazing diagrams.īy contrast, Trinity is just the place to find an overlooked treasure … like MS 8, an exquisite Paris Book of Hours.
HARVARD EVENT MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS HOW TO
Great illuminations in gold and colors showing how to arrange phalanxes. Impressive to me was MS Richardson 16, an Italian manuscript on the art of war, Tacitus’ De instruendis aciebus. The last one that sold a year ago went for $2 million. They include a Wycliffite Bible in Middle English, a “heretical” bible with a furtive reputation.
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The manuscripts are nearly all complete texts, with fine bindings, wide white margins, and lovely illumination. The family money was well spent on 54 manuscripts and thousands of early printed books (over 100 incunables) and fine bindings. He wanted to a PhD in Classics at Harvard, but you have to belong to the indigent classes to become a teacher, and Will was clearly unfit, despite a double first at Oxford (thanks to his Harvard preparation). William King Richardson came from Boston money, attended Harvard (class of 1880) and took a second BA at Oxford, graduating in 1883. You’re not going to find many surprises there, though I was honestly blown away by the intelligent way the collection was assembled: pure Harvard. Harvard’s Richardson Collection is simply stunning but it is fairly well mined. Having spent four solid days in the Houghton Library at Harvard, I was ready for the adventure of a smaller library. My advice: take Professor Elukin’s book history course this Fall! How many times will you get to handle and study YOUR medieval treasures? You will never regret this decision: the experience will stay with you for a lifetime. This collection represents a special treasure in the Watkinson Library, fascinating, valuable, and immensely useful for teaching History of the Book.
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I wanted to offer a little irregular series of notes on them. I spent most of my time at Harvard, but I enjoyed a stop at Trinity (and Smith).
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That’s what brought me to Boston recently. I have a few research goals-probably too many-but chief among them is an inchoate, mammoth project, A History of Medieval Manuscripts in North America. I estimate that I have seen and handled 2500 of them so far, in perhaps 70 collections. I have been spending the past few years traveling all over the US reading medieval manuscripts. Part 1: a medieval kalendar (that’s no mis-spelling)