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:

1. Choose a miniature from our portfolio (either from Verlag Müller & Schindler or from Faksimile Verlag)
2. Re-create the scene!
3. Share it with us on Instagram and/or Facebook using the hashtag #facsimilechallenge
4. 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)