Its name comes from Pergamum, a city of Asia Minor, founded by Phileterus in 238 B.C.Īccording to the Latin writer Pliny, King Attalus I founded the library that reached its apogee with King Eumenes II (197 to 158 B.C.) it held 200.000 volumes in it. Parchment is a writing material with a long and arduous manufacturing process, as the skin of the lamb from which it’s made – usually lamb, goat, sheep or ram -must be treated specifically to make of it a useful and lasting material. But above all, these copies show us the art and knowledge, the creation and reflection of these documents born to remain in time as singular beauty and luxury objects, made as delicate works that we now receive. Through its ongoing quest to improve the results of editions using all types of conventional materials and through its will to spread culture, We manage, with natural parchment copies made of lamb skin, to take that knowledge out of palaces and abbeys, renewing the indescribable pleasure that only real bibliophiles have been able to benefit from.Ĭopies made from manuscripts, codex and historical documents spread the bibliographic art, transmitting the sensitive pleasure before these amazing treasures which can move us, and which are able to revive the meticulous work of monks in the scriptorium and the love of those It is understandable that, with the use of any material based on paper, the characteristics of natural parchment, such as durability, touch, texture, smell and consistency and natural Natural parchment, the one that was used in ancient manuscripts manufacturing for centuries. After a special process of humidifying and creasing, we got a material that looks like the Over the past two decades we have been editing high-quality facsimiles using the best existing paper, even having produced special manufactures of a paper called “pergamenata”. born to remain in time as singular beauty and luxury objects, made as delicate works that we now receive. But above all, these copies show us the art and knowledge, the creation and reflection of these documents. Their lives were devoted to worship and work, to religion and knowledge, to faith and beauty.Ĭopies made from manuscripts, codex and historical documents spread the bibliographic art, transmitting the sensitive pleasure before these amazing treasures which can move us, and which are able to revive the meticulous work of monks in the scriptorium and the love of those hands sewing the parchment pages. The monastery walls were the deaf witnesses of the monks’ labour time didn’t exist for them and they devoted many years to copying and illuminating rich miniatures in unique codex that were worked as jewels. Patiently written or wisely illuminated, books have gone through history, bearing witness to it and reflecting the men attitude about life and about themselves. The manuscript as a knowledge transmitterįor centuries books have been the living memory of mankind. We make digital copies of a entire page to then be able to fold and bind all the pages together.īefore commencing the calligraphy our scribes ready the parchment by preparing the surface with a combination of powder sandarac and fine pumice. Afterwards he calligraphy work is done using only ancient inks – iron gall, walnut and lamp black mixed with Arabic gum. Other archival inks and treatments have been used to reserve the quality and durability of this facsimile. This unique Siddur facsimile was hand-crafted on genuine scribal sheepskin parchment using medieval methods and techniques -honoing the process, traditions and values of ancient manuscript making. All the edition process regards on the extraction and mounting an entire page. This tiny manuscript, roughly the size of a modern smart-phone is estimated to be over 1,300 years old and is only about 50 leaves/pages long, with Hebrew script covering each thick, rough-edged gorgeous page. It is one of the oldest Siddur manuscripts known to exist.
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