Christmas Catalog 2025
This year, our Christmas Catalog once again offers a great selection of very special facsimiles, carefully compiled for you:
These include magnificently illuminated book treasures such as the Codex Aureus of Echternach with its luxury binding, the Grandes Heures du Duc de Berry by the Limbourg brothers, the Breviario Grimani, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead on genuine papyrus.
We have once again selected a total of 75 amazing works for you, which you can now purchase at a particularly favorable price.
So enjoy exploring! But don't hesitate too long, because as you already know, all of the facsimile editions listed here are, as always, unique pieces!
The pious life of the Duchess and convent founder Hedwig of Silesia in captivating pen and ink drawings: an ornate testimony to the great veneration of the local Silesian saint, created for a Wroclaw patrician
Wroclaw (Poland) — 1451
Statt: 1,480 €
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Civic lay book art in Tuscany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: an Italian vernacular adaptation of Aesop's fables and other works, with 64 expressive washed pen-and-ink drawings
Montevarchi (Italy) — 1449
Statt: 1,480 €
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King Modus in conversation with one of his pupils, sumptuously illustrated for Duke Philip the Good: on the art of hunting, the treatment of animals and the luxurious lifestyle of the Burgundian nobility
Burgundy (France) — 1455
Statt: 1,480 €
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Practical knowledge illustrated by masterful depictions of plants and animals: a major work of medieval medicine and botany with more than 500 images of medicinal plants, animals, and humans in alphabetical order
France — Second half of the 15th century
Statt: 7,800 €
Jetzt nur: 1,799 €
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Mythology and religion in masterful miniatures of boundless imagination: the greatest and most personal work of the French court painter Robinet Testard for the influential Count of Angoulême
France — Around 1485
Statt: 5,800 €
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83 gold-framed miniature paintings from the workshop of the great Jean Colombe: a magnificently illuminated adaptation of probably the most famous epic of all time and a wonderful testimony to courtly life in France around 1500
Bourges (France) — Ca. 1500
Statt: 5,980 €
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The famous "Mirror of the Soul" from the pen of one of the most important female authors of the Middle Ages: religious texts and biblical scenes in 75 wonderful miniatures by Sister Isabel de Villena
Valencia (Spain) — Late 15th century
Statt: 2,900 €
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An impressive compilation of German folk songs from the 15th and 16th centuries: 71 individual prints with charming woodcuts, united into a fascinating miscellany and testimony to popular Renaissance poetry
Nuremberg (Germany) — Between 1520 and 1540
Statt: 890 €
Jetzt nur: 399 €
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A truly unique specimen of medieval book art: an almost perfectly round Gothic book of hours with three ornate clasps and enchanting miniatures and historiated initials within the smallest space
Bruges (Belgium) — End of the 15th century
Statt: 3,980 €
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A splendid astronomical manuscript for King Ferdinand I of Naples or his son: Ancient mythology and the astronomy of Aratos of Soloi in 40 beautiful, gold-adorned Renaissance miniatures by Matteo Felice
Court of Ferdinand I of Naples, Naples (Italy) — Second half of the 15th century
Statt: 5,980 €
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An exquisitely illuminated Renaissance masterpiece with a story worthy of a crime novel: begun by Giovan Pietro Birago, then stolen, completed by Gerard Horenbout, and now divided into four volumes due to its more than 200 beautiful miniatures
Milan and Ghent — Around 1486/90 and around 1520
Statt: 9,980 €
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One of the most beautiful manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose for the future Queen Mother Louise of Savoy: the controversial bestseller with 127 captivating miniatures and beautiful decorated initials by Robinet Testard
Probably Cognac (France) — Between 1487 and 1496
Statt: 6,980 €
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With 90 elegant miniatures, wondrous borders and a portrait of the future King of France: a lavishly illuminated masterpiece by Jean Colombe for Louis Duke of Orléans, the later King Louis XII
Bourges (France) — 1490
Statt: 6,987 €
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The first book in Western literature dedicated exclusively to biographies of women: Giovanni Boccaccio's moralizing and much-received work on the virtues and vices of 106 famous women
Zaragoza (Spain) — October 24, 1494
Statt: 690 €
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Stolen from Montecassino Abbey in 1994 and still unrecovered today: the beautiful prayer booklet of Renée de France, lovingly embellished with gold-decorated miniatures and floral borders on every page
Paris (France) — Ca. 1517
Statt: 2,480 €
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Equally important for linguistics, philology, liturgy, musicology, and art history: a unique collection of Church Slavonic texts combining language and art that spans 5 centuries
Pauline Monastery and Church of St. Mary in Osap (Croatia) — 1493–1495
Statt: 890 €
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The Golden Age of French typography meets one of the most influential Spanish clerics of the 16th and early-17th centuries: Juan de Ribera's personal copy of a Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible is richly adorned with masterful engravings
Paris (France) — 1540
Statt: 2,980 €
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More than just a simple "children's book": the magnificently illuminated primer for the daughter of the French queen Anne de Bretagne with beautiful insights into into medieval France
Romorantin, Loire Valley (France) — 1505
Statt: 2,100 €
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Probably the most extensive highlight of Flemish book art: beautiful illuminations comprising impressive miniatures and fantastical borders on almost every one of the fabulous 1,664 pages, created by the most important masters of the time
Ghent and Bruges (Belgium) — 1510–1520
Statt: 22,000 €
Jetzt nur: 5,999 €
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How to make a sea astrolabe or determine the time at night: Martín Cortés de Albacar's milestone in navigation and cosmography with groundbreaking findings about the Earth's poles
Seville (Spain) — May 27th, 1551
Statt: 980 €
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The oldest document of Martin Luther's groundbreaking exegesis of the Bible and the first printed text by the Reformer: the basis of Luther's psalm lecture, annotated with extensive glosses in his own hand
Wittenberg (Germany) — 1513–1515
Statt: 1,290 €
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Named after the French queen from the House of Medici: a precious Flemish Book of Hours of extraordinary imagery, created by the famous Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary
Bruges or Ghent (Belgium) — 1515–1520
Statt: 5,980 €
Jetzt nur: 1,999 €
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The ancient history, rites and customs of the Purépecha: insights into the even then almost lost culture of the greatest rivals of the Aztecs in western Mexico, written by a Franciscan monk
Province of Mechuacan or Michoacan (Mexico) — 1539–1541
Statt: 4,980 €
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Created in the famous court workshop of Emperor Rudolf II and later in the possession of Emperor Maximilian I: gold-framed miniatures and enchanting depictions of animals and plants in a gilded silver-enamel book jacket
Prague (Czech Republic) — 1574 (silver binding) / 1604–1612 and 1623 (illumination)
Statt: 5,800 €
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Biting mockery at the time of the Protestant Reformation: Erasmus of Rotterdam's personal copy of his witty criticism of the church and society, decorated with artistic marginal drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger
Basel (Switzerland) — Ca. 1515–1516
Statt: 1,980 €
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Foldouts of the eye in Georg Bartisch's milestone of medical history: 92 fascinating, partly multi-layered woodcuts in the oldest comprehensive German textbook and first Renaissance work on ophthalmology
Dresden (Germany) — 1583
Statt: 2,980 €
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The travel pharmacy for one of the most fascinating expeditions in world history: the original inventory of remedies carried on the first circumnavigation of the world under Magellan and Elcano
Spain — 1519
Statt: 680 €
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Allowed the most precise astronomical sky measurements before the invention of the telescope: mural quadrant, armillary spheres, and sextants in Tycho Brahe's impressive treatise on astronomical instruments
Wandsbek, Hamburg (Germany) — 1598
Statt: 980 €
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Diego Homem's pioneering cartographic masterpiece: eight gold-decorated maps with equally fascinating and beautiful depictions of sea routes, oceans and lands as evidence of the inexorable advance of science
Venice (Italy) — 1561
Statt: 3,500 €
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A colorful insight into the life of the ancient Orient: the hierarchical order of Ottoman society in over 100 artistic illustrations
Istanbul (Turkey) — 1574
Statt: 2,480 €
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Dante's Divine Comedy in a masterpiece of the Spanish Renaissance: the opus magnum of the Trecento in 88 haunting drawings in red and black, created by the erudite Federico Zuccaro
Spain — 1586–1588
Statt: 5,200 €
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The world's first modern atlas: scientific knowledge and refined art in the opus magnum of the great Gerhard Mercator with 107 masterfully engraved and geographically correct land and sea maps
Germany — First part: 1585; Second part: 1589; Third part: 1595
Statt: 2,398 €
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A splendid example of portolan maps from the late Mallorcan school originating in Messina: an artistic and surprisingly precise depiction of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjacent regions
Messina (Italy) — 1620–1660
Statt: 980 €
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157 luminous miniatures by one of the most famous engravers of all time: the stories of the Old Testament in masterfully executed, coloured copperplate engravings by Matthaeus Merian the Elder
Strasbourg (France) — 1630
Statt: 1,698 €
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Elaborate calligraphy and opulent illumination in a late Haggadah manuscript: Jakob Michael May's lovingly crafted Passover Haggadah for his parents as an expression of the flourishing Jewish book art of the 18th century
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) — 1731
Statt: 1,280 €
Jetzt nur: 699 €
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