Facsimile Editions

Facsimiles are fascinating! Please allow us to take you on a fantastic journey to the world of medieval imagery! You will admire the bold pictorial compositions on the smallest scale, the attempts at linear perspective and at three-dimensional figures, the colour harmonies full of fine nuances, and you will marvel at the gold and silver.

Shining brightly with vibrant colours, the seemingly dark Middle Ages are sparkling with gold and silver in very sumptuously illuminated manuscripts preserved from this period. Quaternio Editions Lucerne, by producing facsimiles which are faithful to the original, will enable you to experience certain masterpieces of medieval book art. The highest quality standards applied in the production of the facsimiles make this experience not only highly impressive visually, but also appealing to the touch, down to the smallest detail.
Each facsimile is published as a unique, limited, hand numbered edition, thus offering direct access to the sheer wealth of book illumination. At home you can peruse the manuscript at your leisure and indulge in the splendour of medieval book art to your heart’s content, even though the century-old originals, preserved in libraries, museums and archives, are inaccessible to the public.