Quaternio Verlag Luzern

Publishers' History in short

December 2011 Publication of the fine art facsimile edition The Flemish Book of Hours of Marie de' Medici with commentary volume.

December 2011 Organisation of the Lucerne Days of Manuscript Illumination in Lucerne and St Gall on the topic of the Flemish Book of Hours of Marie de' Medici.

November 2011 Participation at the "Karlsruher Bücherschau" (Nov 10th to Dec 4th)

October 2011 Launch of the fifth fine art facsimile edition The Corpus Apocalypse (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College) at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

October 2011 Presentation ceremony of the fine art facsimile edition The Speyer Pericopes to the Bishop of Speyer in the Speyer Cathedral.

July 2011 Organisation of the Lucerne Days of Manuscript Illumination in Speyer on the topic of the Speyer Pericopes.

May 2011 Publication of the fine art facsimile edition The Munich Golden Psalter with commentary volume.

April 2011 Launch of the fourth fine art facsimile edition The Speyer Pericopes (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek) at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

March 2011
Public presentation of the fine art facsimile edition of the Munich Golden Psalter and comparison with the original in the exhibition "Gemalt mit lebendiger Farbe. Illuminierte Prachtpsalterien der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek vom 11. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert" in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

March 2011
Organisation of the first Lucerne Days of Manuscript Illumination in the Bavarian State Library on the topic of the Munich Golden Psalter.

March 2011 Conception and production of the exhibition catalogue "Gemalt mit lebendiger Farbe" on the occasion of the exhibition in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

March 2011
Conception and production of the exhibition catalogue "Bürgermacht und Bücherpracht. Augsburger Ehren- und Familienbücher der Renaissance" on the occasion of the exhibition in the Maximilianmuseum Augsburg.

March 2011
Participation at the Lucerne Book Fair "Luzern Bucht".

November 2010 Conception and production of the art book on "Berthold Furtmeyr in München – Illuminierte Prachthandschriften, vol. 1 (Die Münchener Furtmeyr-Bibel) and vol. 2 (Das Salzburger Missale), published by the Bavarian State Library.

October 2010 Launch of the third fine art facsimile edition The Flemish Book of Hours of Maria de Medici (Oxford, Bodleian Library) at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

September 2010 Conception and production of the calendar "Schätze im Himmel – Bücher auf Erden. Mittelalterliche Handschriften aus Hildesheim" on the occasion of the exhibition at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

September 2010 Move to our new home at Obergrundstrasse 98 in Lucerne – you are always welcome!


May 2010 Launch of the second fine art facsimile edition The Munich Golden Psalter (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

May 2010 In time publication of the commentary volume of the first facsimile edition The Prayer Book of Claude de France as scheduled.

March 2010 Conception and production of the exhibition catalogue "Die Fugger im Bild", published by the Bavarian State Library.

March 2010 Participation at the Lucerne Book Fair "Luzern Bucht".

December 2009 Publication of the first fine art facsimile edition.

October 2009 Launch of the first fine art facsimile edition The Prayer Book of Claude de France (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library) at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Enthousiastic report in the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" : "The most beautiful book of the Fair!"

July 2009 Foundation of Quaternio Editions Lucerne by four former collaborators of Faksimile Verlag Luzern.

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