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Primary Sources

In early June, I was fortunate enough to handle and examine eight Books of Hours made for the English market in the collection of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore: six were 15th-century manuscripts (W. 202, 204, 234, 248, 266, and 283), and two were 14th-century manuscripts (W. 34 and 35).

Hours of Philip the Good. Koninklijke Bibliothee, KB 76 F 2.

Llanbeblig Book of Hours. National Library of Wales.
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=thellanbebligbookofhoursnl

Secondary Sources

De Hamel, Christopher. 1994. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd ed. London: Phaidon.

De Hamel, Christopher. 1992. Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators. London: British Museum Press.

Drigsdahl, Erik. Center for Handskriftstudier I Danmark. http://www.chd.dk/

Droggin, Marc. 1980. Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique. New York: Dover.

Duffy, Eamon. 2006. Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. New Haven, CT: Yale UP.

Gumbert, J. P. 1986. “Ruling by Rake and Board: Notes on Some Late Medieval Ruling Techniques.” In The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture, ed. Peter Ganz, pp. 41–54. Brepols: Turnhout.

Gunhouse, Glenn. Hypertext Book of Hours. http://www.medievalist.net/hourstxt/home.htm

Hulsmann, Margriet. “Decorative Penwork and Book Production: Evidence for Localizing Northern Netherlandish Manuscripts.” In Making the Medieval Book, ed. Linda Brownrigg, pp. 93–110. Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace.

Ink Corrosion Website. http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/

Shailor, Barbara. 1991. The Medieval Book. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Smith, Kathryn A. 2003. Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England. Toronto: Toronto UP.

Szirmai, J. A. 1999. The Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding. Aldershot: Ashgate.

University of Aberdeen Historic Collections. The Burnet Psalter. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/collects/bps/index.html

White, Eric Marshall. Books of Hours, and the Bridwell Hours. http://fll.smu.edu/latin/advent2000/bridwell/bridwell1.html

Wieck, Roger S., ed. 1988. Time Sanctified: The Books of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller.

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