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Hair Side:
The side of a sheet of parchment or vellum that once held the animal's hair. This side is generally darker than the flesh side and may carry speckled traces of hair follicles.
Hard point:
A pointed stylus made from metal or bone, used for ruling, drawing, and annotation. A hard point leaves an imprint on the writing surface rather than a dark mark.
Head:
The top edge of a manuscript.
Homiliary:
A book containing discussions of biblical passages, usually from the Gospels, arranged according to the ecclesiastical year. It is also known as a sermologus.
Homogenous:
Uniform in structure or composition.
Hymnal:
A book containing songs sung in the divine office and arranged according to the Christian calendar. The hymnal could be included in a psalter or antiphonal as its own section. Its contents were eventually incorporated into the breviary.