The story
Background
In 1976, whilst still a student, Manuel Moleiro created Ebrisa, a publishing house specialised in books on art, science and cartography which collaborated on a variety of joint enterprises with other publishers including Times Books, Encyclopædia Britannica, Macmillan, Edita, Imprimerie Nationale and Franco Maria Ricci.
In 1991, Moleiro decided to create a company with his own name and brand. Since then he has specialised in identical reproductions of some medieval and Renaissance bibliographic treasures, obtaining authorisation to do so from libraries and museums such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the British Library, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the National Library of Russia, the Huntington Library and the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
To certify this labour of cultural diffusion, each facsimile has a companion volume of studies by manuscript experts.
Complete list of "quasi-original" editions
Beatus of Liébana, Codex of Ferdinand I and Sancha of Castille and León
Beatus of Liébana, Gerona Codex
Beatus of Liébana, Monastery of San Andrés de Arroyo
Beatus of Liébana, Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña
Beatus of Liébana, Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos
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Bible moralisée of Naples
Bible of Saint Louis
Book of Felicity
Book of Hours of Charles VIII
Book of Hours of Louis of Orleans
Book of Hours of Maria of Navarre
Book of Simple Medicines
Book of Testaments
Book of Treasures
Catalan Mappa Mundi
Christopher Columbus’s Chart
Genealogy of Christ
Grandes heures of Anne of Brittany
Heures de Charles d'Angoulême
Great Canterbury Psalter
Hours of Henry VIII
Hours of Henry IV of France
Hours of Charles of Angoulême
Hours of Jean de Montauban
Isabella Breviary
Liber astrologiae (Abū Maʿshar Treatise)
Livre de la Chasse (Book of Hunt)
Martyrology of Usuard
Mattioli's Dioscorides illustrated by Cibo
Miller Atlas
Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse
Prayer Book of Albert of Brandenburg
Romance of the Knight Zifar
Splendor Solis
Tacuinum Sanitatis
The Apocalypse of 1313
The Flemish Apocalypse
The Golf Book (Book of Hours)
The Gulbenkian Apocalypse
The Val-Dieu Apocalypse
The Book of Hours of Joanna I of Castile, Joanna the Mad
Theatrum Sanitatis
Theriaka and Alexipharmaka
Tractatus de Herbis
Universal Atlas of Diogo Homem
Universal Atlas of Fernao Vaz Dourado
Vallard Atlas
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