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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The Book of Miracles: Medieval UFOs
These are pictures (sent to me from Jose Caravaca) found in The Book of Miracles, on sale at Amazon for $101.
The Book
of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago and recently made its
way into an American private collection is one of the most spectacular
new discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The nearly complete
surviving illustrated manuscript, which was created in the Swabian Imperial
Free City of Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages with
large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor depicting
wondrous and often eerie celestial phenomena, constellations, conflagrations,
and floods as well as other catastrophes and occurrences. It deals with events
ranging from the creation of the world and incidents drawn from the Old
Testament, ancient tradition, and medieval chronicles to those that took place
in the immediate present of the book’s author and, with the illustrations of
the visionary Book of Revelation, even includes the future end of
the world.
The surprisingly modern-looking, sometimes hallucinatory illustrations and the cursory descriptions of the Book of Miracles strikingly convey a unique view of the concerns and anxieties of the 16th century, of apocalyptic thinking and eschatological expectation. The present facsimile volume reproduces the Book of Miracles in its entirety for the first timeand thus makes one of the most important works of the German Renaissance finally available to art lovers and scholars. The introduction puts the codex in its cultural and historical context, and an extensive description of the manuscript and its miniatures, as well as a complete transcript of the text, accompany the facsimile in an appendix.
The surprisingly modern-looking, sometimes hallucinatory illustrations and the cursory descriptions of the Book of Miracles strikingly convey a unique view of the concerns and anxieties of the 16th century, of apocalyptic thinking and eschatological expectation. The present facsimile volume reproduces the Book of Miracles in its entirety for the first timeand thus makes one of the most important works of the German Renaissance finally available to art lovers and scholars. The introduction puts the codex in its cultural and historical context, and an extensive description of the manuscript and its miniatures, as well as a complete transcript of the text, accompany the facsimile in an appendix.
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Hardcover: 568 pages
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Publisher: Taschen; Har/Pap Fa edition (January 1, 2014)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 3836542854
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ISBN-13: 978-3836542852
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