Features of the edition
Hand-bound with leather capitals and 6 raised bands on the spine with hot gold stamping, crafted by the Pagnoni Group workshop in Urbino.
Cover covered in full-grain leather, finished by hand for an optimal rendering of the natural grain.
Four-color printing on 150 gsm Fedrigoni matte coated paper. Four-color inserts.
Endpapers on 200 gsm Fedrigoni Acquerello paper. Glass and gold mosaic cover, made by Kappavelle, Venice. Work contained in a box.
Sacred text and scientific committee
Sacred text granted by the Italian Episcopal Conference, in the most recent translation available.
The combination of images of mosaic works with the Sacred Text was curated by the scientific committee of the Marcianum Press publishing house, composed of scholars and theologians:
Leonard Azzopardi, trainer at Ars et Fides in Venice,
Natalino Bonazza, lecturer at ISSR – Studium Generale Marcianum,
Giuseppe Camilotto, archpriest of St. Mark's Basilica,
Maria Da Villa Urbani, head of the Library and Historical Archives of the Procuratoria di San Marco,
Giuseppe Antonio Valletta, editorial manager at Marcianum Press.
Photographs and design
The photographs were taken exclusively for this volume by Sandro Vannini in 2012.