The Scriptorium Collection offers researchers, bibliophiles and lovers of beautiful books reproductions of outstanding works whose importance can be seen throughout European culture.

The few readers in early medieval Europe gravitated around the scriptoria in monasteries, which produced manuscripts on parchment, a long-lasting material; these manuscripts embodied the liturgical and religious essence of Christianity, as in the case of the Commentary on the Apocalypse seen in our facsimiles of the Beatus of Liebanas.

The Carolingian renaissance promoted the production of manuscripts which preserved and gave a framework to the science, literature and arts of the Ancients, as in the Constellation (Metz) Codex. The cultural impetus of this period also produced magnificent religious works such as the Golden Codex, today in the Escorial.

In the Iberian Peninula, Christians lived alongside Jew and Moslems. The habits, customs and traditions of this time laid the foundation of pluralist European culture. The splendour of the Sephardic world bequeathed to us bibliographical monuments such as the Hebrew Bible, while the Moslem world at its apogee left us Korans such as that copied for Muley Zaydan.

Lastly, the nobility came to look upon books as jewels worthy to be included among their most precious treasures: nobles and royalty began to acquire works of art such as the Books of Hours which belonged to Isabella of Castile and the Medicis, their vellum pages bursting with sumptuous iconography.

All these jewels have been reproduced in facsimile by Testimonio, and published jointly with Patrimonio Nacional and the Ministry of Education and Culture, as certified limited editions of 980 copies.