About the Collection
This site is intended to serve as a resource for information about books of hours and certain information about Medieval Western European life associated with them. It is primarily designed to serve as a repository for scans of a book of hours in the collection of the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington. It also serves the secondary purpose of providing information about the life of Western European individuals that helps add to the richness of a person’s understanding of a book of hours. I hope to enlighten those who know little about the subject of books of hours, as well as to spark a connection for those who would not normally be interested in the subject. I also wish to provide this information for the benefit of those who have a passing interest in the topic as well as professionals who practice in the fields of art, literature, medieval history, and any other area of study which concerns a book of hours.
-Alan Morris
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.