Seraphinianus Codex? illustrator and industrial designer Luigi Serafini

Posted by: adonis49 on: November 8, 2013

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Seraphinianus Codex? illustrator and industrial designer Luigi Serafini

in the late 70s, italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer Luigi Serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown parallel world.

The book is about 380 pages. and it written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet.

It took Luigi 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call “the strangest book on earth”.

 Codex seraphinianus is divided to 11 chapters and two parts – first one is about nature and the second one is about people.
Five hundred years ago there was another book somewhat like that – voynich manuscript.

The dimka posted in 2007 codex seraphinianus

Take a look at some pages (click on image to see a bigger version)


 

You can read about it in wikipedia.

update related links
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus – article in wikipedia
inde.ru/tmp/Codex_Seraphinianus.pdf – the entire book in pdf (50mb)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Manuscript – Voynich Manuscript
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlön%2C_Uqbar%2C_Orbis_Tertius – “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” – and article of same kind, that was written by Jorge Luis Borges in the early 20th century
grapefruitopia.com/seraphinianus – a site that talks a lot about the book

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