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By Charity Scott-Stokes

The publication of hours is expounded to were the preferred publication owned via the laity within the later heart a while. ladies have been frequently consumers or proprietors of such books, that have been frequently illustrated: certainly, theearliest surviving exemplar made in England was once designed and illustrated via William de Brailes in Oxford within the mid-thirteenth century, for an unknown younger girl whom he portrayed within the e-book severaltimes.
This quantity brings jointly a range of texts taken from books of hours identified to were owned by way of ladies. whereas a few can be accepted from bibles or prayer-books, others need to be sought in professional courses, frequently embedded in different fabric, and some haven't beforehand been on hand in any respect in sleek variants or translations. The texts are complemented by way of an introductionsetting the booklet of hours in its context, an interpretive essay, word list and annotated bibliography.

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