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5 de feb. de 2013 · Summary. ALTHOUGH FIRST PUBLISHED as a complete cycle in late 1905, The Book of Hours was begun in 1899. Rilke wrote the first part ( The Book of Monkish Life) in about three weeks of that year and the second and third books in 1901 and 1903, each of these in about a week. Each book has its own character and springs from a different episode of ...
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- 2008
Thousands of books of hours made between 1250 and 1700 survive today in libraries and museums, testament to their popularity in their heyday, especially in northern Europe; from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, more books of hours were made than any other type of book.
The translation by McNeill and McCarthy continues in this tradition of investing The Book of Hours with a specific spiritual content, even if their perspective is less a religious one than a Jungian. The interpretation they offer in their introduction, though, bears many theological hallmarks.
- Helen Bridge
- 2009
All Books of Hours begin with a liturgical calendar listing the feast days of the Church year. The calendar is followed by short extracts from each of the Four Gospels, and then by the text that defines the Book of Hours -- the Hours of the Virgin. These are made up of eight sets of devotional prayers to Mary, modelled on the "Little Office of ...
The Belles Heures of Jean de Berry is a book of hours—a prayer book made for private use in the intimate devotion to the Virgin Mary that grew popular toward the end of the Middle Ages.
Although the content of a Book of Hours varies from volume to volume, most Horae (the Latin word for hours) consist of eight parts, each of which exhibits its own rich iconography: 1) a Calendar; 2) the four Gospel Lessons; 3) the Hours of the Virgin; 4) the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit; 5) two prayers to the Virgin known as t...
Books of hours ( Latin: horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. [2] . The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.
