Meet the Berners Hours, a Fifteenth-Century Prayer Book
February 22, 2018
Batza Room, Ungar Athenaeum
The Friends of the Goucher College Library celebrated the acquisition of the Berners Hours, a 15th-century illuminated manuscript prayer book. Learn how this single book, not much bigger than an iPhone5, and its rich store of evidence can supply Goucher students with subjects for research for many years.
Arnold Sanders professor emeritus of English presented a history of the manuscript, its owners, and scholarship to suggest that female scribes and illuminators worked on the Berners Hours. The manuscript was donated in 2017 by Sanders and his wife, Laura Provan, in honor of their parents and Nancy Magnuson, college librarian emerita. Professor Sanders continues to teach a course in the history of the book and his wife is a docent who leads tours of the Walters Art Museum, including examples of its extraordinary medieval manuscript collection.
Additional sponsorship provided by the Book Studies Program and the Brooke and Carol Peirce Center for Undergraduate Research.
To learn more about the Berners Hours please visit http://hdl.handle.net/11603/7495.
