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| Publishers' Catalogs ADEVA (Akademische Druck- und
Verlagsanstalt), Il Bulino, Facsimile Editions, Faksimile
Verlag Lucern, Giunti
Barbèra,
Lengenfelder Editions, Moleiro
Editor, Patrimonio, and Testimonio are among the most important
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| ADEVA—Akademische
Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz: One of the oldest companies in
this field. For over half a century this distinguished Austrian
publisher has been a world-wide leader in the production of superior
quality facsimile editions and has set the standard with its
production of true-to-original reproductions and fine artisan bindings.
Its main facsimile series "Codices Selecti", emphasizing the
treasures of the
Austrian National Library in Vienna, consists now of 113 volumes. | | Il Bulino,
Modena: Established in
1980 Il Bulino has
made Italian art and
culture its niche, emphasizing the environs of Modena and the
rich manuscript and art heritage from the city's Biblioteca Estense Universitaria
(including those of the former Ducal library). Il Bulino's productions are
characterized
by an exquisite balance of printing, craftsmanship and
taste. Its series Ars Illuminandi consists of outstanding
facsimile editions of manuscript masterpieces, e.g., De Sphaera, the "Glockendon Prayerbook" and Les petites prières de Renée
de France— introduced by Ernesto
Milano.
| | Facsimile
Editions, London: Founded
in 1980 by Linda & Michael Falter, the goal of Facsimile Editions
has
been to select some of the finest examples of Jewish and Hebrew
illuminated MSS
preserved in the world's great libraries and to make them accessible
to
the public via faithful reproductions "worthy of the original MSS". Now
with ten outstanding titles to their credit, including such
masterpieces as the Kennicott Bible
(Bodleian Library), Parma Psalter
(Biblioteca Palatina), Rothschild
Miscellany
(Israel Museum) and the North
French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library) the Falters are
keeping alive for future generations the
rich cultural
heritage of the Jewish people.
| | Faksimile
Verlag, Lucern: After
their debut in 1979 with the breathtaking Gradual of St. Katherinental,
Faksimile Verlag has followed in suit with more than 50 exemplary
facsimile
editions, representing a wide variety of sources and libraries. Among
its most notable publications are: the Book
of Kells, the Book of Wonders
of Marco Polo, the Sforza
Hours,
various jewels of book illumination commissioned by the Duke of Berry,
the Morgan Crusader Bible and
the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux.
The company has an intensive program, reaching out to many of the world's
libraries, and now
produces about two new works a year.
| | Franco
Cosimo Panini, Modena: The
facsimiles of Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, commencing with the
impressive Bibbia di Borso d'Este
of 1998, are the culmination of a dream of its founder: to bring out in
a collection—an "Impossible
Library"—faithful reproductions, identical in every way to the
original, of the most prized manuscripts created by the most
accomplished scribes and illuminators of the Italian Renaissance. These
works are also a tribute to the illustrious Italian families who
fostered and sustained art and culture of that period,
names such as the Visconti, Sforza, Medici, Montefeltro, Este, Gonzaga
and Farnese. The facsimiles take advantage of the enormous progress
made recently in the technology of facsimile reproduction, combining
the most sophisticated imaging technology with traditional artisan
techniques.
| | Giunti
Barbèra, Florence: Few
Italian or European editorial houses can lay claim to such an
illustrious multi-century history. The company was founded in
1497—being one of the pioneers in the development
of modern printing techniques in Italy—, and began facsimile production
in 1964. In that year, through
a collaboration with world academics and the President of the Italian
Republic the facsimile project of all the works of Leonardo was born.
Known as the Edizione Nazionale dei
Manoscritti e dei disegni di Leonardo da Vinci, this monumental
set consists of 17 titles encompassing more that 5,000 pages of
facsimiles (and 10,000 pages of transcriptions & commenataries)
from more than 15 libraries around the world.
| | Helga
Lengenfelder: Founded in Munich in 1985 and now
with an impressive catalog of 70 titles, Edition Lengenfelder
concentrates in medieval illuminated and illustrated manuscripts,
picture manuscripts from the end of the middle ages to early modern
times, manuscript atlases, block books, illustrated incunabula and
books printed before 1520. All manuscripts and prints are reproduced in
full-color microfiche editions bound together with contributions
written by well-known scholars. The editions appear in four series: Codices
figurati–Libri
picturati; Codices
illuminati medii aevi; Monumenta xylographica et typographica and Monumenta
cartographica et
topographica. The publisher’s goal is to present
small exemplary groups of manuscripts that have a common era, theme, or
provenance. [n.b.
Edition Helga
Lengenfelder has ceased operation as of 31 Dec. 2008. Only few
copies are still available (upon request). OMI will
continue to list the Lengenfelder editions in its catalogs for
bibliographic reasons.] | | M.
Moleiro Editor, Barcelona: Begun in the
early 1990s Moleiro
may be one of the youngest Spanish facsimile specialists but in a short
time has created more than two dozen
remarkable works. The catalog
is strongly rooted in manuscripts of Spanish provenance—the Libro del caballero Zifar (first
Spanish knight novel), four different Beatos and one
Apocalypse, and five Libro de
horas, mostly from Spanish nobility or ones created by Flemish
miniaturists under Spanish rule. Its
facsimile of the Biblia de San Luis (Bible of Saint Louis, Paris,
1226-1234),
with its luxurious iconography depicted in c.5,000 medallions is one of
the crowning achievements of the company. | | Patrimonio
Ediciones, Valencia: After
publishing its first facsimile in 1999, this editorial house has
embarked on an impressive path creating outstanding facsimiles of a
number of Franco-Flemish sources (including Gerard David and Simon
Bening); more
importantly are the publications of two wonderful Beato
manuscripts ("Manchester" and "Lorvao") and the seventh-century Biblia de Tours, considered the
oldest illustrated bible and an important model for the Beato de
Liébana
iconography. | | Priuli & Verlucca, Scarmagno: Founded in 1971, and
at first known for its emphasis on books on the Alps, Priuli &
Verlucci Editori has slowly evolved into a multifaceted publisher of
works in the fine arts, including photography, cartography,
ethnography, and museum catalogues. The year 1990 witnessed the
company's first facsimile edition, and in 1996 a spectacular
reproduction of the great encyclopic dictionary Rabanus Maurus - De universo
(Montecassion, Archivio dell'Abbazia, casin, 132) appeared, the
company's most important facsimile. Since then P & V's facsimile
catalogue has grown to ten titles, all embodying the most exacting
production
standards
and fine artisan craftsmanship. Basilius Besler's Hortus Eystettensis (The Garden of
Eichstatt)—one of
the first botanicals to portray flowering plants as objects of
beauty—is the company's most recent work. | | Testimonio,
Madrid: César Olmos, the master designer-printer and
founder of Testimonio, is credited for introducing a new dimension in
facsimile making—the tactile experience—the
painstaking recreation of the condition
of the exemplar used for the
facsimile, without sacrificing the quality or illuminosity of
the image. The initial experiment was realized in
the volumes of "Colección
Tabula Americae" (c.25 facsimiles of documents from the Age of
Discovery), which include Códice
Trocortesiano and El
catecismo de Fray Pedro de Gante.
The technique he displayed there has paved the way for some of the most
exciting and demanding facsimiles ever produced: the Hours of
Isabel la Católica, various Beatos, the Corán de Muley Zaidán,
and Códice Áureo (Escorial,
vitr.17).
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