Resources

Books of Hours: Understanding the Sections of Books of Hours| from University of Illinois LibGuide | https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=891901&p=6420009

Delaisse, L. M. J. “The Importance of Books of Hours for the History of the
Medieval Book.” In Gatherings in Honor of Dorothy Miner, edited by Ursula E. McCracken, Lilian M. C. Randall, and Richard H. Randall, Jr., 203-225. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1974.
Harthan, John. The Book of Hours. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1977.
Hindman, Sandra and James H. Marrow. Books of Hours Reconsidered. London: Harvey
Miller Publishers, 2013.
Weick, Roger. Time Sacntified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life . New York:
Braziller, 2001.
Weick, Roger. Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art. New
York: Braziller, 1997.
Manuscript Production
Brown, Michelle. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty
Museum, 1995.
De Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto: University of Toronto,
1992.
Panayotova, Stella and Paola Ricciardi. Manuscripts in the Making: Art & Science.
London: Harvey Miller, 2018.
Robinson, Pamela and Rivkah Zim. Of the Making of Books: Medieval
Manuscripts, Their Scribes and Readers: Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.
Wellesley, Mary. The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts. New York:
Basic Books, 2021.

Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/animals/ | British Library medieval manuscripts blog == posts about animals depicted in medieval manuscripts

https://hyperallergic.com/507274/interpreting-the-beasts-of-the-middle-ages/ | article on a Getty Center exhibition from 2019 on medieval beastiaries

https://www.thecollector.com/medieval-manuscript-menagerie/ | article from The Collector.com on animals in medieval illuminations

Benton, Janetta Rebold. Medieval Mischief: Wit and Humour in the Art of the Middle Ages. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2004.

Image on the Edge by Michael Camille

For Prayer & Devotion
Brown, Rachel Fulton. Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval
Christian Life and Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Duffy, Eamon. “Elite and Popular Religion: The Book of Hours and Lay Piety in the
Later Middle Ages.” Studies in Church History 42 (2006): 140-161.
Duffy, Eamon. Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxuray in Paris, England and the
Gaelic West. London: British Library, 2000.
Manion, Margaret M. and Bernard J. Muir, eds. The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval
Worship. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998.
Reinburg, Virginia. French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

For Family History
Ashley, Kathleen M. “Creating Family Identity in Books of Hours.” Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies 32, no. 1 (2002): 145-165.

Brennan, Michael G. “The Book of Hours of the Braddyll family of Whalley
Abbey.” Transacfions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 146 (1996): 1-30.
Watson, Rowan. “Manual of Dynastic History or Devotional Aid? Eleanor of
Toledo’s Book of Hours.” In Excavating the Medieval Image, edited by David S. Areford, 179-195. Routledge, 2017.

Patrons, Owners & Readers
Burin, Elizabeth. “Patrons and Illuminators in Lyons: Shaping the Manuscript Market
around 1500.” Manuscripta 43 (2003): 45-64.
Manion, Margaret M. “Patrons and Devotion. The University of Sydney’s Hours of
Anne la Routye.” Parergon 15, no. 1 (1997): 237-241.
Rudy, Kathryn M. Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts.
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2016.
Rudy, Kathryn M. “Kissing Images, Unfurling Rolls, Measuring Wounds, Sewing
Badges and Carrying Talismans: Considering Some Harley Manuscripts Through the Physical Rituals They Reveal.” The Electronic British Library Journal, no. 5 (2011): 1-56. http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2011articles/article5.html.

Women & Books of Hours : Owners, Readers, and Teachers
Bell, Susan Groag. “Medieval Women Book Owners : Arbiters of Lay Piety and
Ambassadors of Culture.” In Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, edited by Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jean F. O’Barr, and Anne Vilen, 135-161. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989.
Erler, Mary Carpenter. Women, Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Penketh, Sandra. “Women and Books of Hours,” In Women and the Book, edited by
Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, 266-81. London: British Library, 1996.
Reinburg, Virginia. “‘For the Use of Women:’ Women and Books of Hours.” Early
Modern Women 4, (2009): 235-240.
Renevey, Denis and Christiania Whitehead. Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and
Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Scase, Wendy. “St Anne and the Education of the Virgin : Literary and Artistic
Traditions and Their Implications.” In England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium, edited by Nicholas Rogers, 81-96. Stamford: P. Watkins,1993.
Sciacca, Christine. Illuminating Women in the Medieval World. Los Angeles: J. Paul
Getty Museum, 2017.
Smith, Kathryn A. Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourtheenth Century England: Three Women
and Their Books of Hours. London: British Library, 2003.

Smith, Leslie. Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. London: British Library,
1997.

Women as Scribes & Illuminators
Beach, Alison I. Women as Scribes. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Davis, Robert. “Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages” Lady Science
(blog). 15 February 2018, https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/women-scribes-the-technologists-of-the-middle-ages/
Hudson, Alison. “All She Wrote: Female Scribes Before 1500 AD.” Women’s Literary
Culture and the Medieval Canon: An International Network Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. (Website). University of Surry. 8 March 2021, https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwomen/2021/03/08/all-she-wrote-female-scribes-before-1500-ad/
Hudson, Alison. “Female Scirbes in Early Manuscripts.” Medieval Manuscripts Blog. 8
March 2017. https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/03/female-scribes-in-early-manuscripts-.html
Le Page, Michael. “Medieval Dental Plaque Suggests Women Played Important Role
as Scribes.” New Scientist, 9 January 2019, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2189990-medieval-dental-plaque-suggests-women-played-important-role-as-scribes/
Miner, Dorothy Eugenia. Anastaise and Her Sisters: Women Artists of the Middle Ages.
Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1974.
Wilson, Katharina M., and Nadia Margolis, eds. “Artists, Medieval Women.” Women
in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Wilson, Katharina M., and Nadia Margolis, eds. “Scribes and Scriptoria (c. 400-
1500).” Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Teaching & Literacy
Bäuml, Franz H. “Varieties and Consequences of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy.”
Speculum 55 (1980): 237-65.
Bennett, Adelaide. “A Thirteenth-Century French Book of Hours for Marie. The
Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 54 (1996): 21-50.
Butterworth, Charles C. “Early Primers for the Use of Children.” The Papers of the
Bibliographical Society of America 43, no. 4 (1949): 374-382.
Clanchy, M. T. From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307. 2nd edition. London,
1993.
Rudy, Kathryn M. “An Illustrated Mid-Fifteenth-Century Primer for a Flemish Girl:
British Library, Harley MS 3828.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 69, no. 1 (2006): 51-94.
Sabalis, Samantha. “Beyond St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary: St. Monica, St.
Birgitta of Sweden, and Teaching Children the Faith in Fifteenth-Century England.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures , 44, No. 1 (2018): 77-104.
Saenger, Paul. “Books of hours and the reading habits of the later Middle Ages.” In
The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe, edited by Roger Chartier and translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, 141-73. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

For Grinnell Scholars | Books at Burling Library

Medieval monsters: terrors, aliens and wonders | Sherry Lindquist |2018 | Burling 2nd Floor ND3339.5 .L56 2018

Time Sanctified: the Book of | Roger Wiek | 1988 | Burling 1st Floor – Oversized BX2080 .W54 1988

Painted Prayers: the book of hours in medieval and Renaissance art | Roger Wiek | 1997 | Burling 2nd Floor ND336.A1 W54 1997

The medieval calendar: locating time in the Middle Ages | Roger Wieck | 2017 | Burling 1st Floor CE57 .W49 2017

Introduction to Manuscript Studies | Raymond Clemens | 2008 | Burling 1st Floor – Oversized Z105 .C58 2007

The Routeledge Companion to Medieval Iconography | Colum Hourihane | 2017 | Ebook

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COMING SOON: Topical Resource Lists for Illuminated Manuscripts

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COMING SOON: Topical Resource Lists for Illuminated Manuscripts

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