# Book of Hours [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(74 G 37\), 116 x 85 mm ## Commentary This Book of Hours in two volumes was made for Simon de Varie \(it is also called the Hours of Simon de Varie\). It contains also a Calendar, use of Paris. The illuminators were the Master of Jean Rolin and the Master of the Dunois Hours. The decoration consists of 17 miniatures in volume I, 19 miniatures in volume II, and decorated initials and border decorations. The illumination on folio 4v depicts St John the Baptist Preaching. The size of the miniature is 55 x 35 mm. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()