A collating device for collating material sheets and producing a material sheet booklet for a document type selected from a plurality of different identification, value, or security document types, wherein the material sheet booklet to be produced comprises the collated material sheets in a document-type-specific sequence, wherein the collating device comprises: supply stations , which each hold ready material sheets of a consistent material sheet type in a supply cassette , have a material sheet carrier with a support surface for providing an individual material sheet , and are arranged along a first curved path around a vertical curve axis , a dispensing device , which is configured, at the supply stations , to dispense in each case an individual material sheet from the supply cassette onto the support surface of the corresponding material sheet carrier , a material sheet receiving device for collecting the material sheets for the material sheet booklet to be produced, wherein the material sheet receiving device is configured to receive material sheets one at a time in the document-type-specific sequence from the support surfaces of the relevant material sheet carriers at the individual supply stations of the document-type-specific sequence, wherein the material sheet receiving device comprises a fixing device , which is configured, at each of the supply stations , to fix the material sheet to be received there to the material sheet received directly beforehand by the material sheet receiving device in accordance with the document-type-specific sequence, so that the relative orientation of the material sheet to be received in relation to the material sheet received directly beforehand is defined and then the document-type-specific material sheet booklet is produced. supply stations , which each hold ready material sheets of a consistent material sheet type in a supply cassette , have a material sheet carrier with a support surface for providing an individual material sheet , and are arranged along a first curved path around a vertical curve axis , a dispensing device , which is configured, at the supply stations , to dispense in each case an individual material sheet from the supply cassette onto the support surface of the corresponding material sheet carrier , a material sheet receiving device for collecting the material sheets for the material sheet booklet to be produced, wherein the material sheet receiving device is configured to receive material sheets one at a time in the document-type-specific sequence from the support surfaces of the relevant material sheet carriers at the individual supply stations of the document-type-specific sequence, wherein the material sheet receiving device comprises a fixing device , which is configured, at each of the supply stations , to fix the material sheet to be received there to the material sheet received directly beforehand by the material sheet receiving device in accordance with the document-type-specific sequence, so that the relative orientation of the material sheet to be received in relation to the material sheet received directly beforehand is defined and then the document-type-specific material sheet booklet is produced. <EOS>