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 gorgeous art of ancient Egypt and one of the most fascinating testimonies to this earliest of advanced civilizations: one of only four books of the dead on papyrus that have survived to the present day and one of the greatest treasures of mankind
Possibly Thebes (Egypt) — 1240 BCE
Statt: 14.980 €
Jetzt nur: 4.999 €
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From one of the largest manuscript collections in the world: ten outstanding miniature pages from some of the most important manuscripts in the treasuries of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
Paris (France); Aachen (Germany) and others — 6th–15th century
Statt: 1.980 €
Jetzt nur: 499 €
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Applied natural science in the spirit of the Carolingian Renaissance: groundbreaking insights into the ancient healing power of plants as astonishing and artistic testimony to early medieval medicine
France and Italy — Ca. 10th century
Statt: 5.880 €
Jetzt nur: 1.799 €
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How the sun calendar has determined the holy days for centuries: the history of the Christian feast days in ten marvelous miniatures from some of the most beautiful manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Paris (France); Bruges (Belgium) and others — 9th–15th century
Statt: 1.498 €
Jetzt nur: 399 €
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The revival of late antique book traditions in a magnificent Byzantine codex from the Macedonian Renaissance: the three surviving volumes of an opulently illuminated Bible manuscript for the imperial court official Niketas
Istanbul (Turkey) — Late 10th century
Statt: 980 €
Jetzt nur: 399 €
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Made at Reichenau by order of Germany's only canonized emperor: one of the most beautiful, splendid, and largest masterpieces of Ottonian illumination for Henry II
Monastery of Reichenau (Germany) — 1007–1012
Statt: 590 €
Jetzt nur: 249 €
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A wonderfully preserved, thousand-year-old copy of an even older original: the astronomical-didactic poem by the ancient celestial scientist Aratus of Soloi with 30 fascinating illuminations
Fleury Abbey (France) — Ca. 1000
Statt: 2.650 €
Jetzt nur: 1.399 €
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Made by order of Theophanu, written entirely in gold, and adorned with a breathtaking magnificent binding: arguably the most splendid and beautiful manuscript of all time, created in the famous scriptorium of Echternach
Echternach Abbey (Luxembourg) — 1020–1050
Statt: 17.980 €
Jetzt nur: 9.999 €
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Commissioned by the influential Abbot Desiderius and dedicated to Saint Benedict: a magnificently illuminated lectionary with insights into the life of the saint and the everyday life of the famous Montecassino Abbey
Montecassino Abbey (Italy) — Ca. 1070
Statt: 14.300 €
Jetzt nur: 1.999 €
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The counterpart to the famous Great Domesday Book: not a doomsday proclamation, but amazingly detailed records on the lands of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk as well as their inhabitants
Royal Chancery, Winchester (England) — 1086
Statt: 4.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.499 €
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Genesis, Exodus, sermons, and a bestiary with 119 wonderful pen drawings: a mesmerizing literary compendium and the earliest example of an almost entirely illuminated German-language manuscript
Probably Carinthia (Austria) — Ca. 1200
Statt: 1.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.199 €
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Murasaki Shikibu's literary masterpiece with insights into the courtly culture of the Heian period: the oldest surviving copy of what may be the world's first novel, artfully illuminated by a talented team of female artists
Japan — Ca. 1120–1140
Statt: 980 €
Jetzt nur: 499 €
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The late copy of the original manuscript lost during World War II: one of the main works by the famous abbess and visionary Hildegard von Bingen with her theological-cosmological findings
Monastery of Rupertsberg (Germany) — Ca. 1175
Statt: 7.980 €
Jetzt nur: 3.799 €
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One of the earliest English Gothic bestiaries, now preserved in St. Petersburg: intriguing depictions of animals against golden backgrounds and colorful frames in a luxurious copy of the popular animal book
Probably Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire (England) — Late 12th century
Statt: 3.490 €
Jetzt nur: 1.499 €
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The stories of the Bible in fantastic images like Gothic stained-glass windows: a highlight of the French Gothic style made of luminous medallion miniatures in bold colors and decorated with gold leaf
Paris (France) — 1250–1274
Statt: 1.290 €
Jetzt nur: 499 €
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Wolfram von Eschenbach's opus magnum in a unique testimony of German literature around 1200: an early copy of the famous epic poem with four splendid full-page miniatures on the adventures of Parzival
Probably Swabia (Germany) — Around 1240
Statt: 1.490 €
Jetzt nur: 799 €
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Originally dedicated to Emperor Frederick II and the oldest surviving copy of a medieval guide to spas: Pietro da Eboli's treatise concerning the healing properties of hot springs with 18 beautiful Trecento miniatures
Naples (Italy) — Ca. 1250
Statt: 2.750 €
Jetzt nur: 999 €
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With miniatures like light-flooded Gothic church windows: gold-decorated reminiscences of the stained glass of Sainte-Chapelle in one of the most beautiful masterpieces of French book illumination
Paris (France) — 1260–1270
Statt: 1.280 €
Jetzt nur: 699 €
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The stylistic icon for an entire genre and the seed of Jean de Berry's love for books: 26 surviving, magnificently illuminated leaves of the masterpiece for Blanche of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy, which was burned in 1904
Paris (France) — 1334–1348 and 1370–1378
Statt: 3.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.799 €
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An elaborately illuminated journey through time to Trecento Italy: Benoît de Sainte-Maure's famous Trojan epic in an Italian adaptation with opulent book decoration on almost every page
Bologna (Italy) — Second half of the 14th century
Statt: 5.800 €
Jetzt nur: 2.499 €
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The life of St. Francis of Assisi for an enigmatic patroness: gold-decorated miniatures from the Emilia Romagna with numerous depictions of the unknown, aristocratic donor
Emilia-Romagna (Italy) — Second half of the 14th century
Statt: 3.500 €
Jetzt nur: 1.499 €
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Everyday medieval law and the oldest surviving German-language prose ever: the medieval "predecessor of Basic Law", adorned with no less than 776 Gothic miniatures
Upper Saxonia - Germany — Third quarter of the 14th century
Statt: 1.980 €
Jetzt nur: 599 €
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A magnificent masterpiece by Jacquemart de Hesdin, the Limbourg Brothers, and other exceptional artists for one of the greatest bibliophiles of the Middle Ages: the personal book of hours of the famous Duke Jean de Berry
Paris (France) — 1372–1390
Statt: 6.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.899 €
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Prophetic prophecies about the popes of two centuries: Joachim of Fiore's divinations about the life and work of various church leaders in 46 portraits that are as beautiful as they are fantastical
Basel (Switzerland) — First half of the 15th century
Statt: 1.980 €
Jetzt nur: 999 €
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Created for the pious Archduchess of Austria with a particular sense of family: Barbara's personal book of hours with her imperial family motto on almost every page, created in the circle of Jean Bourdichon
France — 15th century
Statt: 2.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.299 €
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Mighty castles in enchanting landscapes and richly detailed interiors: a lovingly designed book of hours from the heyday of the French Renaissance preserved today in St. Petersburg
Paris (France) — Around 1475
Statt: 4.980 €
Jetzt nur: 999 €
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A unique interplay of the great Renaissance art of Simon Bening, Albrecht Glockendon, and Hans Sebald Beham: the extraordinary assembled picture prayer book of the Duke of Mecklenburg
Belgium / Germany — 1512–1569
Statt: 2.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.299 €
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Created at the magnificent court of King Wenceslas IV in Prague as a synthesis of science, mythology, and art: a fascinating illuminated manuscript dedicated to astronomy and astrology in artistic perfection
Bohemia (Czech Republic) — 1400
Statt: 4.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.999 €
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A book jewel outstanding even from the unique collection of the Duke of Berry: the exceptionally large-format and by Jacquemart de Hesdin magnificently illuminated "Grandes Heures" of the world-famous bibliophile
Paris (France) — 1407–1409
Statt: 12.500 €
Jetzt nur: 5.899 €
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A royal wedding gift, created by three of the greatest masters of the French Gothic: 60 full-page miniatures and more than 400 elaborate marginal illuminations for the Duchess and Duke of Brittany
Paris (France) — Ca. 1420
Statt: 10.950 €
Jetzt nur: 4.499 €
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The splendid result of a collaboration between the two most prominent artists of their time and the beginning of a new era: 40 groundbreaking miniatures by Fra Angelico and Zanobi Strozzi as a testimony to the beginning of the Quattrocento
San Domenico monastery in Fiesole (Italy) — 1424–1430
Statt: 6.900 €
Jetzt nur: 1.499 €
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72 artistic, gold-decorated miniatures between naturalism and dreamy, fairytale-like imagery: one of the most richly illuminated manuscripts of Dante's famous Divine Comedy
Milan (Italy) — 1430–1450
Statt: 5.900 €
Jetzt nur: 2.499 €
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Once owned by the Rothschild family and unique in its form: the famous heart-shaped hymnbook with 44 love songs for Bishop Montchenu, a clerical romantic at the French royal court
Savoy (France) — Ca. 1460
Statt: 3.480 €
Jetzt nur: 1.499 €
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A work of the "Who's Who" of medieval illumination: the wedding gift of Emperor Maximilian I to the Catholic Monarchs, masterfully and richly illuminated by Simon Marmion, Lieven van Lathem, and others
Ghent (Belgium) — Ca. 1475
Statt: 7.500 €
Jetzt nur: 2.799 €
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Mysterious festivals and ancient rituals adopted into the new faith: a pre-Columbian calendar as beautiful as the elaborate ceramics of the Mixtecs and a rare glimpse into the Christianization of Old Mexico
Mexico — 15th – beginning of 16th century
Statt: 980 €
Jetzt nur: 499 €
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One of the finest surviving copies of the epoch-changing Gutenberg Bible: gorgeous, hand-painted decorated initials and marginal illuminations in the edition of the eponymous French cardinal and bibliophile Jules Mazarin
Mainz (Germany) — Ca. 1455
Statt: 1.980 €
Jetzt nur: 999 €
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One of the most splendidly and beautifully illuminated manuscripts of the Spanish Gothic period: an exuberantly decorated breviary completed in two phases and with royal assistance
Spain — 1398–1410 and 1420–1430
Statt: 3.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.499 €
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On the upbringing of the young Maximilian Sforza, son of the powerful Duke of Milan: Latin grammar combined with late antique moral concepts and beautiful Renaissance miniatures
Milan (Italy) — Late 15th century
Statt: 5.980 €
Jetzt nur: 2.499 €
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One of the few surviving illuminated German language prayer books: a magnificent work adorned with 46 beautiful miniatures of exceptional quality for the imperial steward and his wife
Swabia (Germany) — 1476
Statt: 2.980 €
Jetzt nur: 1.199 €
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457 naturalistic miniatures for illustration and to avoid misunderstandings: a late 15th century manuscript of the great medieval pharmacopoeia by Matthaeus Platearius
France — Second half of the 15th century
Statt: 1.390 €
Jetzt nur: 599 €
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