I know of someone at the Courtauld Institute who is working on
additions to books of hours (the practice of pasting in and/or sewing
in engravings and other images, if I remember correctly).
Her name is Ursula Mayr-Harting, and she is working with Dr Susie Nash.
I don't think she has an e-mail address, but you could try writing to
her at the Courtauld (Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN).
Beth Williamson
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:40:45 +0100 john lock
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> I recently came across an area which does not seem to have been
much studied which is what people did with their books of hours.
Everyone seems to have been so busy constructing typologies and
ateliers that little attention has been paid to the things that
happened to the book once it left the bookseller. What about the things
that people write in the books? There are some fascinating glimpses
into life in some of the British Library's collection. I came across
an example (albeit not in the BL) recently where someone had given
their book of hours to a priest who took it to Reims and pressed it
against various (named) reliquaries in the various churches there and
put in a certificate to this effect. Does anyone out there know of
anything similar? Is anyone actively researching it?
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Dr BA Williamson,
Department of History of Art
University of Bristol
36 Tyndalls Park Road
Bristol, BS8 1PL
+ 44 (0)117 928 8591
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