Resultado de búsqueda
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.
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.
BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be? Recent Reviews: Very Positive (76) All Reviews: Very Positive (2,498) Release Date: Aug 17, 2023. Developer: Weather Factory. Publisher: Weather Factory. Popular user-defined tags for this product:
- (1.7K)
- Weather Factory
- Weather Factory
- Aug 17, 2023
book of hours, devotional book widely popular in the later Middle Ages. The book of hours began to appear in the 13th century, containing prayers to be said at the canonical hours in honour of the Virgin Mary.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Book of Hours (German: Das Stunden-Buch) is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). The collection was written between 1899 and 1903 in three parts, and first published in Leipzig by Insel Verlag in April 1905.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- 1905
- 1905
- Poetry
It has long been a truism that the Bible is the most-published book in the history of Western culture. But for almost 250 years, from about 1275 to 1525, Books of Hours (illuminated prayer books whose heart is a series of prayers devoted to the Virgin Mary) were the medieval best sellers.
Books of hours were among the most widely produced medieval manuscripts. These prayer books structured time for their readers and met the demand for private Christian devotion. By The J. Paul...
