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The Book of Miraclesfirst surfaced only a few years ago and isone of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created inAugsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages of large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor, depictingwondrous and often eerie phenomena.
The mesmerizing images deal with bothbiblical and folkloric tales, depicting stories from the Old Testament and Book of Revelation as well as events that took place in the immediate present of the manuscript’s author. From shooting stars to swarms of locusts, terrifying monsters to fatal floods,page after page hypnotizes with visions alternately dreadful, spectacular, and evenapocalyptic.
This volume presents the revelatoryBook of Miraclesin a new, compact format, making thisextraordinary document accessible to everyone. It comes with a translation of the manuscript texts and two essays that give an introduction to the cultural and historical context of this unique Renaissance work.
