Art treasures from the world's most famous collections


Trinity College, Dublin: Before completing the difficult task of producing a perfect facsimile edition of the Book of Kells, specialists of Faksimile Verlag Luzern had to travel to Dublin 150 times in order to reproduce everything including the finest details.

The great museums and libraries of the world entrust us at Faksimile Verlag Luzern with the conservation and reproduction of their most valuable illuminated manuscripts in faithful facsimile editions complete with scholarly commentaries. Both librarians and directors of these museums acknowledge the quality of our experts from Lucerne and their diligence in handling the precious originals. Often years of negotiation and preliminary discussion, down to the minutest detail, are needed to clarify all items of scholarly and technical co-operation between the owner and the publishing house well before the conclusion of a contract, and to ensure the flawless running of the extensive production phase necessary for facsimile editions. The strongrooms containing the irreplaceable painted manuscripts of the past are always readily opened for Faksimile Verlag Luzern, whether in Europe or overseas. Our teams always work on site to produce the sophisticated and extremely costly documentation needed in facsimile production and compare each single picture and text page with the original. Our researchers and technicians are equally at home in the British Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Austrian National Library, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and even the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg.

International support

For more than twenty years, researchers and curators, directors of museums, statesmen and international organisations have been supporting us at Faksimile Verlag Luzern in our work, through patronage of the most valuable editions.

Among our numerous supporters, we are quoting just a few names as representative examples:

François Avril, Conservateur au Département des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris

Pierre Cockshaw, Chef du Département cabinets museologiques" de la Bibliothèque Royale Al- bert Ier, Bruxelles, Professeur à l'université Libre de Bruxelles

Flavio Cotti, Member of the Bundesrat, Bern

Prof. Umberto Eco, Ordinario di Semiotica, Università di Bologna

Monseigneur Léon-Arthur Elchinger, Bishop of Strassburg

Dr. Hans Dietrich Genscher, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany

Eminenz Dr. Franz Kardinal König, Vienna

François Mitterand, Président de la République française

Prof. Dr. Carl Nordenfalk, formerly Director of the National Museum, Stockholm

Prof. Dr. Willibald Sauerländer, formerly Director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München

Prof. Dr. Alfred A. Schmid, formerly Präsident der eidgenössischen Kommission für Denkmalpflege, Fribourg

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

William D. Wixom, Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum, New York


The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum, New York: Hundreds of thousands of visitors admire the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux every year, a jewel of medieval book illumination by Jean Pucelle whose fine grisaille painting is just barely visible through the heavy panes of bullet-proof glass.


Chantilly near Paris: The Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry is the most valuable treasure kept in the collections of the Institut de France in the Château de Chantilly. The facsimile edition of this work of art has been sold out years ago.


Big room of the Austrian National Library, Vienna: In this library, which undoubtedly houses the most beautiful library room of Europe, our specialists of Lucerne worked intensely on making the Croy Hours and the Book-Altar of Philip the Good accessible to art lovers all over the world.





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