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Medieval Liturgy: Prayerbooks and Books of Hours

Library and internet resources about the medieval liturgy.

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Websites

Picturing Prayer: Books of Hours in Houghton Libary, Harvard University
This website is designed to permit you to open some of the books of hours in the Houghton Library's collection without traveling to the reading room.
CHD Center for Håndskriftstudier i Danmark
A tutorial on the Book of Hours and an Index to a Selection of Uses is part of the website of the Institute for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts in Denmark.
Musica Sacra
The Prayer Book of Claude de France
See and listen to a series of brief lectures by Roger S. Wieck, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, on the Prayer Book of Queen Claude of France.
Books of Hours
The site includes manuscripts for sale by Les Enluminures, as well as tools for learning more about Books of hours
The Medieval Mass and Its Music

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Free Library Philadelphia MS Lewis E 086, ff. 34v-35r

Book of Hours

Book of hours (Ms. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Ross. 94)
Call Number: Z114 .V3 v.56 pt.1, pt.2

Das Stundenbuch Vat. Ross. 94 : entstanden um 1500. 240 leaves + 1 commentary volume.
Book of hours (Ms. Farnese)
Call Number: ND3363.F3 V64 2003

The Farnese Hours, executed in Rome for Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, were decorated by the illuminator Giulio Clovio from 1537 to 1546.
Book of hours (Ms. Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund)
Call Number: ND3363.M293 S88 1995

Includes commentary.
Book of hours (Ms. Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund)
Call Number: BX2080.A35 M3 1969 v.1-2

Formerly considered to have been the hour book of Charles the Bold; more recently, of his daughter Marie, Duchess of Burgundy. Commentary volume by Antoine de Schryver.
Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400 by Eva Lindqvist Sandgren
Call Number: N25 .F5 v.28

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Las grandes horas de la reina Ana de Bretaña
Call Number: ND3363.B74 G73 2007

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Lat. 9474
Las horas diurnas del Liber Horarun de Silos : introducción y edición crítica (Cod. Silos, Arch. Monástico, 7) by Juan Javier Flores Arcas.
Call Number: BX2080 .F56 1997
The Brussels Horloge de Sapience: iconography and text of Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS. 111 by Peter Rolfe Monks
Call Number: Z105.5.B53 M65 1990

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The Duc de Berry's book of hours
Call Number: MICROFILM 11405.2

Pius Spec Coll VFL
The Madresfield hours : a fourteenth-century manuscript in the library of Earl Beauchamp
Call Number: ND3363.M33 B33 1975
The Rohan book of hours by Jean Porcher (Editor)
Call Number: ND3363.R6 P62 1959
The Taymouth hours : stories and the construction of the self in late Medieval England by Kathryn A. Smith
Call Number: ND3363.T39 S65 2012

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England by Charity Scott-Stokes (Translator)
Call Number: BX2080 .W66 2006

Prayerbooks

Das Andachtsbuch der Marie de Gavre : Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. nouv. acq. fr. 16251 by Andreas Bräm
Call Number: ND3149.C35 B73 1997

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Das Gebetbuch für Herzog Albrecht V. von Österreich (Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 2722) by Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer
Call Number: ND3380.4.C63 P55 2002

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Gebet und Betrachtungen des Lebens des Mittlers Gottes und des Menschen unsers Herrens Jesu Christi.
Call Number: ND3380.4.A43 G43 1997 Facsim.; ND3380.4.A43 G43 1997 Comm.
Prayer Book of Albert of Brandenburg
Call Number: ND3380.4.A43 G43 1997
Prayer book of Otto III [electronic resource]
The prayer book of Aedeluald the bishop, commonly called the Book of Cerne;
Call Number: BV193.G7 B7
The Prayer book of Michelino da Besozzo by Colin Eisler
Call Number: ND3380 .B4

Catalogs

Libri d'ore della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana : catalogo della mostra, salone Sistino by Giovanni Morello (Editor)
Call Number: ND3363 .B52 1988
Illumination from Books of Hours by Janet Backhouse
Call Number: ND3363.A1 B3 2004

Acts as an introduction to manuscripts in the collections of the British Library

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Andachtsbücher des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz : Katalog zur Ausstellung im Schnütgen-Museum by Joachim M. Plotzek
Call Number: ND3363.A1 P4 1987

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Les heures de la prière : catalogue des livres d'heures de la bibliothèque de l'abbaye d'Einsiedeln by Miriam Milman
Call Number: ND3363.A1 M55 2003

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Les livres d'heures manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale by V. Leroquais
Call Number: Z7838.H6 L6 v.1

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Leuchtendes Mittelalter. V : Psalter und Stundenbuch in Frankreich vom 13. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert by Eberhard König
Call Number: ND2899.5 .H475 1993

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref