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Instagram and Facebook Facsimile Challenge: #facsimilechallenge
According to the motto “Facsimile Challenge” we start our photo challenge together with our partner publishing house, the Verlag Müller & Schindler. The best photos are regularly published here on our website and on our social media channels.
Participation is easy:
- Choose a miniature from our portfolio (either from Verlag Müller & Schindler or from Faksimile Verlag)
- Re-create the scene!
- Share it with us on Instagram and/or Facebook using the hashtag #facsimilechallenge
- Tag additionally
- in Instagram @faksimile_verlag, @verlag_mueller_und_schindler and/or @facsimile_challenge
- in Facebook @ Verlag.Mueller.und.Schindler and/or @FaksimileVerlag
Alternatively, you can also send us your pictures by E-Mail!
You find the conditions of participation here.




Diana from “Christine de Pizan – 100 Images of Wisdom”
(fol. 26r; Epistre Othea)
Astronomer with his writer and a computist
from “The Royal Psalter of Sainte-Chapelle” (fol. 1v)




Angels singing TE DEUM LAUDAMUS
from “Hours of Catherine of Cleves“ (fol. 11)
Second Seal opened revealing the Second Horseman
from “The Berry-Apocalypse (fol. 11v; Rev. 6,3)




Minerva from “Christine de Pizan – 100 Images of Wisdom”
(fol. 16v; Epistre Othea
Emilia, who rekindles the fire with her veil from “Franz von Retz: The Book of Wonders” (fol. 25; Defensorium Inviolatae)




The first two days of Creation
from “The Oxford Bible pictures”(fol. 1r; Genesis 1:1-8)
Third Seal opened revealing the Third Horseman
from “The Berry-Apocalypse(fol. 12v; Rev. 6,5)




Page from “The Royal Psalter of Sainte-Chapelle”
(fol. 40)
Tucia carries water in a strainer from “Franz von Retz: The Book of Wonders” (fol. 15; Defensorium Inviolatae)




Dragon and Antichrist worshiped
from “The Berry-Apocalypse“ (fol. 42v; Rev. 13,3)
Christ clasps a sword in his mouth
from “The Berry-Apocalypse“(fol. 4v; Rev. 1,12-16)




Saint Barbara from „Hours of the Flemish Masters“
(fol. 191v)
The woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet
from “The Berry-Apocalypse“(fol. 65v; Rev. 17,1)




States of society – a craftsman’s family
by “Jean Bourdichon”
Portrait of Ezra
from “Codex Amiatinus” (fol. 5r)




Chi Rho monogram
from “Book of Kells” (fol. 34r)