As part of their Civilisation, the Romans handed down to our predecesors their language, Latin, and along with this language: the codices "CODEX"

uring the middle ages, the practise of recovering texts of classical origin was adopted in monasteries, by means of a painstalkings, well-aligned script of even height, the very image of the serenity of those who penned it, mirroring the decorum of their lives. For over 1000 years, manuscripts would be the heritage of monks. From the eleventh century, each abbey and each monastery had its own "SCRIPTORIUM", where work was done copying or creating, decorating or binding. The composition of illuminated lettering goes through several different stages the pen, the ink, the gilding, the strokes of different colours interlaced and underlined with darker shades. Calligraphers iluminators, miniaturists and binders: the copyist monks became ARTISTS, and their creations WORKS OF ART. First characters-handwriting clay made appears in China in 1050. In 1455 Guttemberg printed The Bible, and through its circulation power set the HAND WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT to one side, though giving this a new value, as they could not compete in details nor in finish with the patient devotion of the "SCRIPTORIUM".

ur facsimile editions represent the frecing of ancestral knowledge from the confines of palaces, museums, libraries or abbeys, to become the heritage of humanity ending the exclusive privilege of owning something as precious as gold-manuscripts: the results of the patient work of monks and calligraphers for whom time did not exist, years devoted to copying and to the richest iluminations of unique codices, fashioned like jewels. Through its editions SCRIPTORIUM allows works of art of bibliographical nature to go on carrying out the function for wich they were created for centuries more: the delight of the senses in the contemplation or study of what are genuine treasures.

Spectacula Lucretiana

“Ancient books are the world’s youth, and the new ones are the fruit of it’s age.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes