Facsimile publishing house

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The facsimile Verlag , 1974 by Walter Schweizer in Lucerne established, is a publishing house dedicated solely to printing facsimiles dedicated. Today the publishing house is in Simbach am Inn (Lower Bavaria).

Program and direction

In Lucerne, headed by Manfred Kramer and from 2007 by Gunter Tampe, the publishing house has been under the editorial management of Armin Sinnwell since 2009. In 2006 the Facsimile Verlag Luzern became part of inmediaONE GmbH, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann . Three years later the Lucerne location was closed and the publishing house relocated to Munich. In 2014 the Facsimile Verlag ceased operations and Armin Sinnwell left Bertelsmann. In 2017 the facsimile business was resumed under the direction of Charlotte Kramer, owner of the Müller und Schindler publishing house .

One of the best-known facsimiles is the Book of Kells (published 1990). In addition, various prayer books and books of hours as well as liturgical, secular and astronomical-astrological manuscripts, chronicles and Bible manuscripts are published. The facsimile editions have been reproduced in full and true to the original to this day. The prints of the individual issues are very expensive.

After the publishing house was founded in 1974, the Lucerne Chronicle of Diebold Schilling was published as the first work . To mark the tenth anniversary of the publisher, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry appeared in 1984 , the Great Burgundy Chronicle in 1985 and another work from the Duc de Berry library in 1988 , the Petites Heures , whose patronage was the former French President François Mitterrand .

In 2007, the 50th edition of the publishing house, the Mainz Gospels, appeared under the patronage of Cardinal Karl Lehmann. Since moving from Lucerne to Munich in 2009, facsimiles of the Book of Hours of Katharina von Kleve and the Sacramentary of Heinrich II have appeared as further milestones in medieval literature . In 1999, the Italian writer Umberto Eco gave a laudation for the 25th anniversary of the publishing house .

After the move to the Simbach am Inn location, the inventory of the Facsimile Verlag is being marketed again and new editions are also planned, including a facsimile edition of the Godescalc Evangelistary .

  • Facsimile of the Great Burgundy Chronicle

  • Double page from the Great Burgundy Chronicle

  • Book of Kells fol. 32v

  • Double page from the Godescalc Gospel: Fountain of Life and Initial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Waldvogel: Facsimile closes, lawsuit threatens. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung. No. 61, March 14, 2009, p. 14. Abridged version as an online article . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Armin Sinnwell leaves Bertelsmann, Facsimile Verlag closes  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Report on buchreport.de. Retrieved October 8, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.buchreport.de  
  3. ↑ The traditional facsimile publishing house resumes its work under new ownership . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on August 29, 2018]).