M. Moleiro Editor
M. Moleiro Editor is a publisher specializing in the facsimile reproduction of codices , maps and illuminated manuscripts, founded in Barcelona in 1991 .
history
Manuel Moleiro founded the Ebrisa publishing house in 1976 while still a student. In it he published books on art, science and cartography and worked on various joint projects with publishers such as Times Books, Encyclopaedia Britannica , MacMillan, Edita, Imprimerie Nationale and Franco Maria Ricci .
In 1991 he decided to found a company under his own name and brand. Since then, it has specialized in the cloning of some of the most important bibliographic treasures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . For this purpose, it has obtained the approval of libraries and museums such as the French National Library , the British Library , the Morgan Library & Museum, the Metropolitan from New York, the Russian National Library, the Huntington Library or the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Each facsimile edition is supplemented by a volume of commentary written by scholars specializing in codicology.
Publishing work
The editions of M. Moleiro Editor prove to be difficult to distinguish from their originals. In order to distinguish them from the term “ facsimile ”, M. Moleiro Editor decided to call the codices “almost original”. All issues of the house are first and unrepeatable, limited to 987 numbered and notarized copies.
In 2001 the daily newspaper The Times characterized the publisher's work as the "art of perfection". A year later, Allegra Stratton wrote in the same newspaper that "the Pope sleeps next to his bed with a near-original by Moleiro".
With time to be Pope John Paul II . Personalities such as the former US president Jimmy Carter , Bill Clinton and George Bush , the Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago , the Portuguese president Aníbal Cavaco Silva and King Juan Carlos I . joined by Spain.
Among the most important works reproduced by M. Moleiro are of the works of the Beatus of Liébana , the Beatus of Cardeña, the Beatus of Arroyo, the Beatus of Silos , the Beatus of Ferdinand I and Sancha and the Beatus of Girona . The three volumes of the Bible of Louis the Holy , which is considered the most important bibliographic monument in history with a total of 4887 miniatures, have also been published under his label . His catalog also features numerous books of hours such as the Breviary Isabella the Catholic, the Grandes Heures of Anne de Bretagne or the Book of Hours of Joan I of Castile, medical treatises such as the Book of Simple Remedies or the Tacuinum Sanitatis and masterpieces of cartography such as the Miller Atlas or the Vallard Atlas .
Complete list of the "almost original" issues
- Apocalypse 1313
- Flemish apocalypse
- Miller Atlas
- World Atlas of Diogo Homem
- Fernão Vaz Dourado World Atlas
- Vallard Atlas
- Beatus de Liébana, Code from Girona
- Beatus of Liébana, San Pedro de Cardeña Monastery
- Bible Louis the Holy
- Bible moralisée from Naples
- Breviary of Isabella the Catholic
- Genealogy of Christ
- Grandes Heures of Anne de Bretagne
- Book of hours - golf book
- Book of hours by Charles of Angoulême
- Henry VIII's Book of Hours
- Book of hours of Joan I of Castile
- Book of Bliss
- Book of Treasures
- Book of Testaments
- Annotated Triple Psalter
- Splendor Solis
- Tacuinum Sanitatis
- Theriacs and Alexipharmaka
- Tractatus de Herbis
- Apocalypse Gulbenkian
- Beatus of Liébana, Codex of Ferdinand I and Doña Sancha of Castile and León
- Beatus of Liébana, Monastery of San Andrés de Arroyo
- Beatus of Liébana, Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery
- Map of Christopher Columbus
- Book of hours of Charles VIII.
- Book of hours of Ludwig von Orleans
- Book of Hours of María of Navarre
- The Book of Simple Remedies
- Albert von Brandenburg's prayer book
- Catalan world map
- Martyrology of Usuardus
- The book of the knight Zifars
- Theatrum Sanitatis
Individual evidence
- ^ "A Jaca, l'art roman reconnaisant". Le Monde , 20/09/2010
- ^ "The art of perfection". The Times , 23/04/2001
- ^ "A literary favor to world culture". The Times , 23/04/2002