Starting Research
This section of the guide will help you locate relevant primary and secondary sources about Books of Hours. The first dropdown tab will assist in finding books and book chapters, the second tab is geared towards finding articles, and the third tab contains a finding aid for the Books of Hours held at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. To the right are links to useful online resources.
Digital Resources
- Hypertext Book of HoursAn online Book of Hours with text from the Latin/English Primer of 1599
- Hours of York, 1536Online Book of Hours
- Eric Drigsdahl Site on Books of HoursHelpful overview of Books of Hours, particularly the section on Calendars.
- Calendoscope--Calendar of Saint's DaysListing of saint's days that is useful when trying to establish a Book of Hours' localization based on the Calendar.
- Grotefend's Directory of Saint's DaysAnother resource for determining localization through the Calendar
- Les Enluminures Introduction to Books of HoursGood introduction to the sections and function of Books of Hours.
- Digital ScriptoriumA collection of digitized manuscripts, including Books of Hours.
Title page from the Heures de Nostre Dame, an incunable Book of Hours, Call number: Incunabula 264.02 C28ho150-