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Portland State UniversityPDXScholarTexts of Time Special Collections: Rare Books & Manuscripts201510, Points of DifferenceCharolette StoehrPortland State UniversityLet us know how access to this document benefits you.Follow this and additional works at: http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/textsoftimePart of the History of Religion Commons, and the Medieval History CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Texts of Time by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar.For more information, please contact pdxscholar@pdx.edu.Recommended CitationStoehr, Charolette, "10, Points of Difference" (2015). Texts of Time. Book 9.http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/textsoftime/9Points of Difference Charolette Stoehr   The Book of Hours represents a change of beliefs that was taking place as the needs and uses of devotional manuscripts were shifting from primarily liturgical use to personal use. When Portland State University’s Book of Hours was created, a shift from liturgical prayer and worship to personal prayer and worship was taking place throughout Christendom. As a broad segment of the population began to learn to read for themselves, where once only the priests in the churches and monks who transcribed the illuminated manuscripts could, the desire emerged to skip the “middle man” and seek a direct connection to God through personal prayer and devotional study.   The new use of illuminated manuscripts as personal devotional objects created a demand for smaller manuscripts that could be held in the hand or carried on the person. The text remained in Latin in most medieval illuminated manuscripts with some, such as PSU’s Book of Hours, written in both Latin and the vernacular French.1   Illuminated miniatures of the Annunciation largely continued to be traditional, using the same subjects, and changes were only reflected in the arrangement of subjects and the way the message was depicted from Gabriel to Mary (Fig. 4). The message could be writing suspended in the air, golden lines of light such as the PSU Book of Hours or a scroll bearing writing. An image of God sometimes appeared above the picture suspended in the heavens looking down, with open hands in blessing or, as in PSU’s Book of Hours, a white dove suspended in air over Mary’s head.   There are many points of difference and continuity amongst Book of Hours. We can see that differences occur over time periods, between regions, uses and the people who owned the books of Hours. Despite the many changes and individualized illuminations, the Book of Hours endured throughout the centuries as a personal tool of devotion and became a reflection of the time period.   Bibliography   "A Rouen Book of Hours." Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 11, no. 1 (1952): 10-15. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3774276.   Backhouse, Janet. "Two Books of Hours of Francis I." The British Museum Quarterly 31, no. 3/4 (1967): 90-96. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4422968.   Dickman, Myra Orth. "Two Books of Hours for Jean Lallemant Le Jeune." The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 38 (1980): 70-93. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20168971.                                                            1 “A Rouen Book of Hours.” Princeton University 11, no. 1 (1952)  Parpulov, Georgi. "An Aldine Book of Hours." The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 233-35. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20168639.  

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