The Hours of Simon de Varie (Getty Museum Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts)
This delightful, scholarly detective story identifies and reunites parts of a late medieval manuscript by Jean Fouquet and other leading illuminators of the 15th century. The manuscript, divided centuries ago, is now at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu and at The Hague. Marrow reconstructs the commissioning and later history of the manuscript as well as its original physical form, reproducing all the illuminations and a few selected text pages. An excellent introduction to the beauties and problems of this tiny art; highly recommended for general collections as well as for specialists.Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.