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Information on Facsimile Books

Facsimile Books Pre 12th Century

• The Domesday Book - One of the Three Most Important Books Ever Written - 11th Century
• ARATEA - A Sidereal Hour in Book Illumination - 9th Century
• The Book of Kells - One of the Most Mysterious Art Treasures - 8th Century
• The Lindisfarne Gospels - The Bright Colours of Celtic Art - 8th Century
• The Salzburg Pericopes - A Collection of Gospel Texts for the Liturgy - 11th Century
• The Bible of Tours (Ashburnham Pentateuch) - The Oldest Painted Spanish Manuscript - 6th Century
• The Bamberg Apocalypse - A Luxury Manuscript for Two Emperors - 11th Century
• Cynegética - Treatise on Hunting and Fishing - The Oldest, Most Beautiful and Enlightening Manuscript Dedicated to the Hunt - 11th Century
• Albelda Codex - One of the Most Precious Manuscripts in the Escorial Library - 10th Century
• Codex Aureus - The Miniatures are Undoubtedly Among the Most Beautiful Works of the German School - 11th Century
• The Escorial Beatus - The Miniatures are a Perfect Example of Mozarabic Iconography - 10th Century
• Metz Codex - One of the Most Important Scientific Codices of the 9th Century - 9th Century
• The San Millan de la Cogolla Beatus - The Most Complete of the Three Beatus Copies Which Belonged to San Millán de la Cogolla Monastery in the High Middle Ages - 10th Century
• The Tábara Beatus - A Work from the Great 10th Century León School - 10th Century
• Seu de Urgell Beatus - A Magnificent Beato in the Style of the Mozarabic Miniaturist Tradition - 10th Century
• The Valladolid University Beatus - Distinguished by the Beauty of its Calligraphy and the Excellence of its Miniatures - 10th Century
• Codex Neapolitanus - One of the Oldest Manuscripts in the Tradition of Materia Medica - 7th Century
• The Golden Psalter of Charlemagne - (Dagulf Psalter) - Produced Prior to the Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne in the Year 800 - 8th Century
• Drogo Sacramentary - One of the Finest Monuments of Carolingian Book Illumination - 9th Century
• Codex Etchmiadzin - One of the Most Precious Manuscripts in the World - 10th Century
• The Gospel Harmony of Eusebius - Among the Irreplaceable Masterpieces of the School of Reichenau - 11th Century
• Hrabanus Maurus - Liber de laudibus Sanctae Crucis - A Monumental Manuscript Containing a Series of 28 Picture Poems - 9th Century
• The Joshua Roll - One of the Most Magnificent Surviving Manuscripts of the Imperial Court School of Byzantium -10th Century
• The Lives of Saint Kilian and Saint Margaret - The Most Important Episodes in the Lives of Both Saints are Illustrated in Sumptuous Golden Miniatures - 10th Century
• Gospel Lectionary of Saint Petersburg - A True Jewel of Byzantine Art - 10th Century
• Vita Sancti Liudgeri - One of the Most Fascinating Manuscripts of the Late Ottonian Period - 11th Century
• Abu Mansur Muwaffak ibn `Ali al-Harawi - The Oldest Preserved Manuscript in the Persian Language - 10th Century
• Codex Millenarius - A Codex of Outstanding Spiritual Value and of Special Cultural and Historical Interest - 9th Century
• Codex Purpureus Rossanensis - Contains the Oldest Picture of an Evangelist in the History of Illumination - 6th Century
• Lorsch Rotulus - A Chef-d’œuvre of Carolingian Art - 9th Century
• Utrecht Psalter - The First Illustrated Psalter in the World - 9th Century
• Vergilius Vaticanus - A Unique Testimony to Late Roman Book Illustration - 5th Century
• Werden Psalter - A Sumptuous Psalter, Displaying Precious Luxury - 11th Century
• Echternach Sacramentary and Antiphonary - A Forerunner of the Roman Missal - 11th Century
• The Beatus of Saint Michael of Escalada - The Most Spectacularly Illuminated Texts Dating from the High Middle Ages - 10th Century
• Epistles of Saint Paul - The Final Part of an Old Papyrus Codex - 3rd Century
• Byzantine Epigrams and Icons of John of Euchaita - Byzantine Traditional Chanted Hymns - 11th Century
• Vergilius Augusteus - One of the Few Remains of a Rare Form of Late-Classical Majuscle Script - 4th Century
• The Codex Egberti - The Peak of Ottonian Illumination - 10th Century
• The Apocalypse of San Juan - The Largest Beatus - 11th Century

Facsimile Books 12th to 14th Centuries

• Barcelona Haggadah - One of the Finest Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts in the Collections of London's British Library - 14th Century
• The North French Hebrew Miscellany - One of the World's Most Sumptuous Hebrew Treasures - 13th Century
• The Parma Psalter - An Exquisite Book of Psalms, one of the Great Treasures of Hebrew Manuscript Illumination - 13th Century
• The Brussels Hours - Mysterious Jewel of the Duke of Berry - 14th Century
• The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux - Precious Treasure of a Queen - 14th Century
• The Model Book of Giovannino de Grassi - Guiding Images of Great Book Illumination - 14th Century
• The Peterborough Bestiary - Wonders of Wildlife in Gothic Pictures - 14th Century
• Les Petites Heures du Duc de Berry - A Majestic Illuminated Manuscript - 14th Century
• The Trinity Apocalypse - The Most Famous Gothic Apocalypse - 13th Century
• Rudolf von Ems: World Chronicle - Stricker: Charlemagne - The Favourite Book of the Middle Ages - 13th Century
• Ordinations and Ceremonials of the Coronation of the Monarchs of Aragon - 14th Century
• De Balneis Puteoli - Pietro da Eboli's Poem on the Medical Benefits of Different Spa Waters - 13th Century
• The Bible of Saint Vincent Ferrer - Hand written codex of the XIV Century - 14th Century
• Codex Manchester - The Most Illustrated "Beato de Liébana" - 12th Century
• Codex of San Marned de Lorvao - Portuguese Manuscript of 1189 Copied by Egeas in the San Marned de Lorvao Monastery - 12th Century
• The Medicine and Pharmacy of Emperor Frederick II - A Precious Manuscript Illustrated in Sicily - 13th Century
• The Las Huelgas Musical Codex - Undoubtedly One of the Most Important Manuscripts in the History of Spanish Music - 14th Century
• The Turin Beatus - Based on the Magnificent Gerona Beatus - 12th Century
• Berthold Sacramentary - The Finest Manuscript of the Romanesque Period - 13th Century
• Antiphonary of Saint Peter - A Work of Art of Such High Rank that Only Very Few Other Liturgical Books Equal It - 12th Century
• Codex Borgia - A Unique Work in the History of Art - Pre 15th Century
• The Goslar Gospels - One of the Most Exquisite Creations Preserved to this Day from the Staufer Period - 13th Century
• The Ingeborg Psalter - One of the Most Significant and Luxurious Manuscripts of the Early Gothic Period -12th Century
• The Krumlov Picture Codex - One of the Most Precious Manuscripts Kept in the Austrian National Library - 14th Century
• The Landgrave Psalter - One of the Finest Works of Early Gothic Illumination - 13th Century
• Losbuch in deutschen Reimpaaren - A Completely German, Rhymed Book - 14th Century
• Moralized Bible of Saint Louis - A Masterpiece of Gothic Book Illumination - 13th Century
• Oxford Apocalypse - Among the Most Significant English Manuscripts of the 13th Century - 13th Century
• Bestiarium - A Magnificent Codex Richly Embellished with Gold Leaf - 13th Century
• Model Book of Rein - The First Medieval Model Book - 13th Century
• Fraternization Book of St. Peter - One of the Oldest and Most Venerable Monuments of Bavarian-Austrian History -14th Century
• Wenceslas Bible - A First Class Illuminated Manuscript with 646 Miniatures - 14th Century
• Willehalm - One of the Most Famous Pieces of Medieval Literature - 14th Century
• The Book of Zwettl - "Bear´s Skin" - A Luxury Manuscript Destined for Practical Use Which is Still Lavishly Decorated - 14th Century
• Dresden Mirror of Saxony - Germanys Most Important Legal Book - 14th Century
• Historia Plantarum - The Medical Encyclopaedia of Emperor Wenceslas - 14th Century
• Millstätter Genesis- und Physiologus-Handschrift - A Well Known Carinthian Manuscript in Middle High German - 12th Century
• The Master of Modena Hours - One of the Masterpieces of Lombard Illuminated Manuscripts - 14th Century
• The Oxford Bible Pictures - Gothic Ivory and Glowing Gold - 13th Century
• Gothic Picture Bible - A Reminder of the Stained Glass Windows of Gothic Cathedrals - 13th Century
• Wolfram von Eschenbach - Willehalm - The Significant Later Work of the Greatest Poet of the Staufer Era - 13th Century
• Rudolf von Ems: World Chronicle - Stricker: Charlemagne - The Unfinished Last Work of Rudolf Von Ems - 13th Century
• Gottfried von Strassburg - Tristan and Isolde - One of the Most Influential Medieval Romances - 13th Century
• The Ellesmere Chaucer - The Most Famous of all English Literary Manuscripts - 14th Century
• Hainricus Sacramentary - Magnificent Romanesque Book Art in Gold and Silver - 13th Century
• Officium Virginis - A Modern Edition of an Old Book of Hours - 14th Century
• Gaston Phoebus – The Master of Game - Images Like Tapestries - 14th Century
• History of Alexander the Great - Owned by Margaret of Austria and Emperor Napoleon - 13th Century
• Book of Fixed Stars of Alfonso the Wise - The Birth of European Astronomy - 14th Century
• Speculum Humanae Salvationis - A Late Medieval Book for Religious Edification - 14th Century
• Prato Haggadah - Sumptuously Illuminated with Gold and Silver in Sephardic Spain - 14th Century
• Frederick II's Art of Falconry - The Favourite Sport of Kings and Princes Until the Renaissance - 13th Century
• The Mainz Gospels - The Holy Scripture in Gold and Glowing Images - 13th Century
• Mirror of the Saxons - The Most Important Law Book of the German Middle Ages - 14th Century

Facsimile Books 15th Century

• Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Treatise on Architecture - One of the Milestones of the Architectural Theory of the Italian Renaissance
• Piero della Francesca - Treatise on Geometry - The First Treatise on Geometry of the Renaissance
• The Laurentian Codex and The Art of Silk in Florence - Sheds Light on Every Aspect of this Fascinating Artistic Practice
• The Squarcialupi Codex - Among the Most Magnificent Works in the History of Italian Illumination
• The Alba Bible - Rabbi Moses Arragel's Testament
• The Kennicott Bible - One of the Most Beautiful Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts in Existence
• The Rothschild Haggadah - The Most Sumptuous of all Illuminated Haggadot
• The Rothschild Miscellany - The Most Lavish Hebrew Illuminated Manuscript in Existence
• The Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne - A Queens Prayer Book
• The Berlin Book of Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Emperor Maximilian - Burgundian - Flemish Book Illumination in Perfection
• Les Très Belles Heures du Notre-Dame - Magnificently Illuminated Manuscript of the Duke of Berry
• The Belles Heures of Jean Duke of Berry - The Limbourg Brothers' Masterpiece
• The Black Book of Hours - A Radiant Treasure in Black and Silver, Gold and Blue
• The Great Burgundian Chronicle by Diebold Schilling of Bern - The "Zurich Schilling". The Immediate Source on the Burgundian Wars
• The Book of Drôleries (The Croy Hours) - A Fabulous World of Miniatures
• Marco Polo - The Book of Wonders
• Pierre Sala’s Book of Love - One of the Most Beautiful Declarations of Love Ever Made
• The Sforza Hours - An Outstanding Renaissance Manuscript
• De Sphaera - The Most Beautiful Book of Astrology of the Italian Renaissance
• Diebold Schilling's Spiezer Illuminated Chronicle - The Crowning Achievement of His Art - Diebold Schilling's Final Masterpiece
• The Turin-Milan Hours - The Only Known Illuminated Work by Jan van Eyck
• The Bible of Borso d'Este - The Most Beautiful Book in the World
• Lorenzo the Magnificent's Treatise on Arithmetic - A Renaissance Masterpiece Once Belonging to Lorenzo the Magnificent and Pope Leo X
• The Visconti Book of Hours - An Exceptionally Rich Book of Hours
• Pope Alexander VII Greek-Latin Dioscorides - The Pharmacopoeia Used in the Greek, Roman and Arab Worlds
• Hebrew Bible - An Example of Fine Ornamentation with Interlace, Filigree and Calligraphic Medallions
• Liber Horarum - Full Page Illuminations Attributed to the Flemish Master Gerard David (1460-1523)
• Book of Hours of Queen Isabella of Castile - The Wealth of Detail is Characteristic of the Best Flemish Workshops
• Rouen Book of Hours - A Fine Example of French Manuscript Illumination
• Book of Dynasties - Arms and Origins of the Nobility of the Austrias
• Zúñiga Book of Hours - Specially Written and Illuminated for Juan de Zúñiga
• Missale Hervoiae ducis Spalatensis Croatico-Glagoliticum - The Most Beautiful and Richly Embellished Illuminated Codex Written in the Croatian Church Slavonic Language
• Mondsee-Wiener Liederhandschrift - One of the Most Important Monuments of the Medieval Art of Lied
• Older Prayer Book of Emperor Maximilian I - The Intimate Devotional Book of a Sovereign
• Book of the Hunt of King Modus - A Book of the Hunt Manuscript Made for Philip the Good
• Tacuinum Sanitatis - A Book on Health Arranged in Tabular Form
• The Tournament Book of King René - The Only Testimony to the "pas d’armes" Held at Saumur
• Vorauer Peoples Bible - An Outstanding Document of the Cultural Development
• Oswald von Wolkenstein - A Songbook for All Students of Late-Medieval Music
• Codex Zouche-Nuttall - An Aztec Screenfold Form of Manuscript
• Ottheinrich's Bible - The Queen of German Bibles
• The Bible of Federico da Montefeltro - A Very Special Monument to the Greatness of a Ruler
• Novi Breviary II - The Croatian Redaction of the Slav Church
• Works of Publio Virgilio Marón - A Pictorical Manuscript with Many Illustrations in Gold and Colour
• Book of Hours of Alexander VI "Pope Borgia" - Masterpiece of the Flemish School
• Liber Physiognomiae - Art and Horoscopes in a pre-Renaissance Treatise on Astrology
• Apocalypse Johannis - The Book of the End of the World
• Genealogy of the Este Princes - The Portrait Gallery of the Lords of Ferrara
• Profane Compositions - Musical Poetry for Court Celebrations
• Liber Precum - A Masterpiece of Late Medieval Illumination
• The Book of Hours of the Weaving Virgin - A Clear Exponent of the Best French Style of the 15th Century
• Latin Dioscórides - Demonstrates the Greatness of the Work of Dioscórides
• Bible of Nicolás III of Este - The Most Beautiful and the Most Celebrated Lombard-Gothic Codex
• The Book of Hours of the Retables - A Book of Hours According to the Roman Custom
• The Textbook of Emperor Maximilian I - The School Textbook of "The Last Knight and the First Mercenary"
• Book of Hours of Lorenzo de Medici - The Most Sumptuous and Amazing Binding of Any Book of Hours
• Vergilius Publius Maro - A Marvellously Decorated Illuminated Manuscript
• Mi'ragnama: The Apocalypse of Mohammed - Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
• Jacques Bruyant: Le Livre du Chastel de Labour - A Mediaeval Guide to a Fulfilled Life
• The Bedford Hours - The Richest Book of Hours of the Middle Ages
• The Purple Passion of Fra Angelico - Commissioned by Piero de Medici
• The Divine Comedy - An Exceptional Manuscript of the Divine Comedy

Facsimile Books 16th Century

• Bernardo da Sahagun - Florentine Codex - Lavish Illustrations and Plentiful Information About pre-Hispanic Civilisations in Mexico
• The Flowers Book of Hours by Simon Bening - Superlative Flemish Book Illumination in Velvet, Gold and Precious Stones
• The Swiss Chronicle of Werner Schodoler - A Classical Work on the History of Switzerland
• The Salamanca Armorial - A Gem Amongst Known Armorials
• Genealogy of the Spanish Monarchy - One of the Most Beautiful Codices of Spain´s National Library
• The Empress's Codex - The Insigned Order of the Golden Fleece
• Treatise on Architecture and Machines by Juan de Herrera - This Small Jewel Bears Witness to the Least Known Aspect of the Creative Genius of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
• Book of Hours of Philip II - The Most Beautiful Manuscript in the World for the Most Powerful King
• Privileges of Carlos V - Traditional Judgement Privileges in the City of Seville
• Book of Hours of the Medicis - A Wedding Gift from Pope Leo X
• Muley Zaidan Koran - A Fine Koran from the Private Library of Sultan Muley Zaydan of Morocco
• Book of Hours of Charles V - An Exceptionally Fine Book of Hours Created for His Coronation as Holy Roman Emperor
• Catechism of Fray Pedro de Gante - A Fine Example of the Pictorial Catechisms Produced in New Spain by Franciscans and Dominicans
• The Prayer Book of Philip II - A Particularly Rich Work Owing to the Number of its Whole-Page Illuminations
• Ambras Book of Heroes - A Significant Work in the Tradition of High and Late Medieval German Epic Poetry
• Costume Book of Lambert de Vos - A Presentation of the Dressing Habits of Individual Peoples in Elaborate Form
• The Farnese Hours - The Most Significant Manuscript of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art
• Hamza-Nama (Vol. 1 and 2) - Deals with the Legendary Heroic Deeds of Hamza, a Persian Rebel Leader Active at the Time of Caliph Harun al Rashid
• Prayer Book of James IV of Scotland and his Wife Margaret Tudor - The Wedding Gift of the Groom to his Bride
• Codex Magliabechiano - Contains Sections on the Ancient Calendar, Monthly Feasts, and Other Festivals
• Roman de la Rose for Francis I - One of the Most Popular Books in History
• Rothschild Prayer Book - A Most Beautiful and Precious Book of Hours from the Late Period of the Livres d’Heures
• Codex Tulane - A Richly Illuminated Mixtec Manuscript
• Tuti Nama - The Book of Parrots - A Persian Work Executed in the Mogul Style
• Younger Prayer Book of Charles V - One of the Most Precious Monuments of the Late Period of Flemish Book Painting
• The German Prayers of Susanna of Brandenburg - Festive Fireworks of Colours and Gold
• Pomar Codex - Atlas of Natural History of Philip II
• Book of Hours of Alfonso d'Este - The Last Really Extraordinary Creation of the Ferrarese Illuminators
• Book of Hours of Doña Mencía of Mendoza - A Magnificent, Very Small, Book of Hours
• Rosary of Joanna the Mad - A Masterpiece by Simon Bening
• The Golden Calendar Book - The Delicate Masterpice of Albrecht Glockendon
• The Hildesheim Golden Calendar - An Outstanding Calendarium Reflecting the Transition from Romanesque to Gothic Art
• Songbook of the Dukes of Burgundy - Illustrated by the Prestigious Workshop of Alexander Bening
• Book of Lovers - The Moving Story of a Love Without Words
• Of Wondrous Occurrences - A Fascinating Collection of Late Medieval Fantasies and Beliefs

Facsimile Books 17th to 21st Century

• Arab Art in Cairo - A Decisive Contribution to the Knowledge of Arabian and Especially Egyptian Art - 19th Century
• The Chinoiserie's of Meissen - The Celebrated Collections of Designs and Patterns of Chinese Subjects Used Until the End of the Nineteenth Century - 18th Century
• William Blake - Jerusalem - William Blake's Last Great Visionary Epic - 19th Century
• Perek Shirah - A Chapter of Song - 18th Century
• The Darmstadt Codex - Pesah-Haggada - A Liturgical Book for the Pesah Feast - 18th Century
• Dala’il Al-Hayrat - The Masterpiece by Abu Abdallah Muhammed ibn Abi Bakr ibn Sulayman al-Gazulı - 17th Century
• El Buscón by Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas - One of the First Contemporary Novels

Leonardo da Vinci Facsimiles

• Introduction to the Leonardo Facsimiles
• The Codex Atlanticus - The Largest Collection of Leonardo's Papers Ever Assembled
• Leonardo Manuscripts in the Bibliotèque de l'Institut de France - Individual Notebooks Preserved in their Original Format
• The Forster Codices - Three Small Notebooks Dating From the End of the Fifteenth to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Centuries
• The Codex Trivulzianus - Leonardo's Attempt to Organise and Arrange that Part of the Italian Language Which Deals with Science, Philosophy, and Academic Subjects in General
• Codex on the Flight of Birds - Leonardo's Theories on Flight
• Leonardo's Corpus of the Anatomical Studies at Windsor Castle - Leonardo's Research Into the "Human Machine"
• Leonardo's Drawings in Private or Public Collections
  • Leonardo's Drawings in the Reale and Regi Archivi of Turin - Leonardo Material Assembled by Carlo Alberto of Savoy About 1840
  • Leonardo's Drawings in American Collections - Including the Complete Series of Caricatures in the Spence Collection of the New York Public Library
• Leonardo's Treatise on Painting - Il Libro di Pittura
• The Codex Arundel - The Book that Closes a Century and Opens a New Millennium
• The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and his Circle in the Accademia Gallery, Venice - From the "Gabinetto dei Disengni e Stampe" - Selected and Presented by Carlo Pedretti

Australian Limited Editions

• Dr.Doyle's Sketches in Australia - The Sketch-Book, Containing Forty Five Watercolours
• The Haymarket Drawings - One of Australia's Most Important Contemporary Artists