About us

Founded in 1988 for the purpose of publishing facsimile editions of music and musicography from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, periods, LIM has developed an intense publishing activity in all fields of music culture and musicology. Today, our catalogue includes more than one thousand titles that are widely used by scholars as reference sources. The catalogue includes a wide range of publications such as: Facsimile Editions of Ars Nova of the 14th and 15th Centuries to 20th Century music; important Opera Omnia, current studies on contemporary music, music iconography and ethnomusicology. We work toghetherwith: the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais,Tours; the Commission de la Recherche de l’Université Paris 8; the Laboratoire d’Études Romanes–EA4385 de l’Université Paris 8; the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), Oxford. International distributors: Casalini Libri e Torrossa, Fiesole; Theodor Front, Santa Clarita (CA); OMI, Old Manuscripts & Incunabula, New York; Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.