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Document Details : Title: Imagining the Week of Hours Subtitle: Reader Involvement in a Middle Dutch Printed Prayer Book of 1498 with a Cycle of Hours for the Weekdays Author(s): DLABAČOVÁ, Anna Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 94 Issue: 1-3 Date: 2024 Pages: 89-115 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293964 Abstract : In 1498 the Canons Regular near Schoonhoven, not far from Gouda, published a collection of Hours in which the texts are distributed over the seven days of the week. Starting with the Hours of the Holy Spirit on Sunday, the book invites the reader to read and engage with a range of Hours that cover a relatively wide spectrum of perspectives and devotions every week. Some of the Hours appear in the translation ascribed to Geert Grote (1383-1384) – the Long Hours of the Holy Spirit (Sunday), the more mystically tinted Hours of Eternal Wisdom (Monday), and the Long Hours of the Cross (Friday) – but the book also contains the relatively recently composed (c. 1486) Hours of St Anne (Tuesday). This contribution explores the reading skills these liturgically arranged prayer texts required and the ways in which the book, through an interplay between text and image, achieved reader involvement and even immersive forms of reading. |
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