Quaternio Verlag Luzern

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Quaternio Verlag Luzern AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 2009
Seat SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lucerne
management Gunter Tampe
Number of employees 9
Branch Book publisher
Website www.quaternio.ch

The Quaternio Verlag Luzern AG is a Swiss publishing house, which is the leading manufacturer of faithful facsimile editions of medieval manuscripts and the publication of art books editions on the subject of book illumination and calligraphy has specialized. It was founded in 2009 and is the only facsimile publisher in Switzerland.

founding

On July 9, 2009, Gunter Tampe, long-time production manager at the Facsimile Verlag Luzern , founded the independent Quaternio Verlag Luzern together with three former colleagues and thus built on the work and tradition of the Facsimile Verlag Luzern, founded in 1974, which was sold to Bertelsmann in 2006 and stopped working in Switzerland three years later. In October 2009, Claude de France's prayer book, the first facsimile edition by the new publisher, was presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair .

Surname

Quaternio means in late Latin "the four, four number" or "a whole made up of four units". The publisher's name can thus be understood as an allusion to the four founders. At the same time, Quaternio is a technical term from manual binding and describes the most common form of a layer in the Middle Ages , consisting of four double sheets, which are folded in the middle and placed one inside the other in a booklet shape. The publisher's name therefore also alludes to the technical aspect of the facsimile.

Publishing program

Folio page (174r) from the facsimile book of hours of Margaret of Orléans with a miniature of Maria Magdalena as penitent and a lively harbor scene in the border
Facsimile of the Book of Hours of Margaret of Orléans , fol. 174r

Quaternio Verlag Luzern publishes two new facsimile editions of artistically outstanding illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance every year . The focus of the program is on the facsimile of Christian-Occidental manuscripts from Western and Central Europe: Apocalypse manuscripts, prayer books and books of hours , liturgical manuscripts, edification literature , textbooks for children, chronicles and secular poetry . The spectrum of facsimile manuscripts ranges from the late Carolingian period to the 16th century. Each edition includes a commentary volume that scientifically reveals and classifies the facsimile manuscript under various aspects and thus also makes it accessible to book lovers. The authors of these commentary volumes are art historians, medievalists and manuscript experts, including Eberhard König , Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck , Nigel J. Morgan, Roger S. Wieck, Jenny Stratford and Peter K. Klein .

In addition to the facsimile editions, one or two art books are published each year, which reproduce selected manuscripts and calligraphy books in their original format. In some cases, these art book editions are accompanied by an original facsimile sheet.

In cooperation with libraries such as the Bavarian State Library in Munich or the Austrian National Library in Vienna and with other cultural institutions, the Quaternio Verlag Luzern designs and produces exhibition catalogs on the subject of manuscripts and book illumination.

Program highlights

Magnificent binding of the facsimile evangelist from Speyer with a silver-gilt figure of Christ on the front cover
Front cover of the facsimile edition of the Speyer Evangelistar

In 2012 the Quaternio Verlag Luzern published the facsimile edition of the Speyer Evangelistar from around 1220, which is preserved and guarded in the Badische Landesbibliothek as Codex Bruchsal 1. The largely contemporary splendid binding of the manuscript with a silver-gilt figure of Christ on the front cover was reproduced in detail. For reasons of conservation, the precious original can no longer be shown open today.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013, the publisher announced the Codex Gisle from around 1300 , the unusually lavishly decorated gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock from the Cistercian monastery of Rulle near Osnabrück, as its ninth facsimile edition. The original is now in the Osnabrück diocesan archive (manuscript Ma 101). At the end of 2014, the facsimile edition was delivered together with a music edition (nine chants from the Codex Gisle , recorded by the Frauenschola of the Osnabrück Youth Choir).

Quaternio Verlag Luzern was the first facsimile publisher in the world to be able to facsimile a manuscript from the Royal Collection of the English royal family in 2015/16 . It is the late Gothic Sobieski book of hours , which was created around 1430 in Paris under the direction of the famous Bedford master . The splendid manuscript came into the possession of King John III in Poland in the last quarter of the 17th century . Sobieski arrived and received the binding that still exists today. The Sobieski Book of Hours is a Zimelie in the holdings of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the commercial register on July 9, 2009 (commercial register number CH-100.3.790.346-8). Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ Carlo Bernasconi: A start with a 69 by 49 millimeter book . In: Swiss book trade . No. 12/09 , December 3, 2009, p. 8-9 .
  3. ↑ Stefan Waldvogel: The most beautiful book is from Lucerne. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung. No. 282, December 5, 2009, p. 14. Abstract as an online article. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  4. ↑ Manuscript: MS M.1166 , Morgan Library & Museum , New York
  5. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: Book Fair Sketches: No question of space . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 240 , October 16, 2009, p. 31 .
  6. ↑ Volker Breidecker: A stand, a book. Quaternio facsimilized Claude de France's prayer book . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 237 , October 15, 2009, p. 14 .
  7. ↑ Explanation of terms Quaternio . In: Universal-Lexikon, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Milde: quaternary (io) . In: Severin Corsten, Stephan Füssel, Günther Pflug (eds.): Lexicon of the entire book system . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Stuttgart 2003, p. 146 .
  9. ↑ Frank Baier: "Quaternions" of important book paintings . In: bindereport . No. 11/2014 , p. 42-43 .
  10. ^ Codex Bruchsal 1 of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe (digitized version). Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  11. ^ Rüdiger Krohn: Magnificent picture book for believers . In: Baden's latest news . May 16, 2013, p. 15 .
  12. ^ Walter Jäggi:  From the darkness of the archive to light. In:  Tages-Anzeiger. August 2, 2012, p. 32.
  13. ↑ Peter Kreutzenberger: Background: Bookbinders, restorers and experts in digitization - how a Swiss publisher produces a facsimile edition of the Speyer Evangelistar from 1220 . In: The Rhine Palatinate . No. 151 , July 2, 2011.
  14. ↑ Jan Kampmeier: Seldom shown work of art. Magnificent choir book: Codex Gisle in the original and facsimile on display in the Diocesan Museum . In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . November 24, 2014, p. 21 .
  15. ^ Matthias Petersen: Scrolling in the facsimile. In: Church messenger. Weekly newspaper for the Diocese of Osnabrück. No. 47, November 23, 2014, Art & Culture SI
  16. ^ Andreas Mertin: The Codex Gisle. A church music facsimile. In: Tà katoptrizómena. The magazine for art, culture, theology and aesthetics [online magazine]. Issue 103, 2016.
  17. ↑ Jessica Pfister: On Her Majesty's behalf . In: Schweizer Illustrierte . No. 8 , February 24, 2017, p. 48-51 .
  18. ↑ Luzerner Verlag prints the Queen's book. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung Online. August 3, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  19. ↑ Sobieski Hours. Retrieved January 5, 2018 .
  20. ^ Catrin Bartenbach: Royal treasure . In: stern . No. 17 , April 20, 2017.