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… at the publishing company for true-to-the-original facsimiles in the heart of Switzerland. We are a young facsimile publishing house, although all together, we look back on more than 30 years experience in fine art facsimile publishing. Our aim is to discover the finest and artistically most interesting of the illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and make them accessible to you.

The Primer of Claude de France – A Royal Reader with Golden Images

How did the children of kings learn to read five hundred years ago? Only a few manuscripts that taught young princes or princesses to read have survived. One particularly splendid example is the Primer of Claude de France, the daughter of Anne de Bretagne and a future Queen of France. Around 1505 court painter Guido Mazzoni created for her a truly royal book of ABCs with golden borders and numerous miniatures. Today it is one of the most enchanting manuscripts of the sixteenth century.

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Quaternio Verlag Luzern has also published the Prayer Book of Claude de France. Here, you will learn more about the manuscript that Claude de France had made for her coronation as Queen of France.

Presentation of the Speyer Pericopes in Arnsberg

As part of the exhibition of facsimiles titled "Unbegreifliches begreifbar. Glanzstücke der Buchkunst vom 7. bis 16. Jahrhundert" at Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg (Germany), Quaternio Editions Lucerne is releasing its facsimile edition of the Speyer Pericopes. With its magnificent binding and seventeen large miniatures on golden backgrounds, the Speyer Pericopes is one of the most beautiful manuscripts of the late German Romanesque era. Visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the facsimile editions on display.

Learn more about the exhibition and program of events at Kloster Wedinghausen.

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