#wunderzeichenbuch

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Unknown artist, Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 28, c. 1552

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Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) / The Augsburg Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch) (1545-1552 or thereabouts) / John Donne, "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star" (published posthumously in 1633) / Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) (2004) / Morehouse's Comet, Photographed at Yerkes Observatory (1908) / Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (c.1592-3)

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Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 28, c. 1552

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header source ₓ˚. ୭ ˚ the book of miracles by augsburger wunderzeichenbuch, c. 1550

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☀ Augsburg Book of Miracles

The Augsburg Book of Miracles (German: Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch , also known simply as The Book of Miracles) is an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century

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From The Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch), c. 1550. Source

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Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end. - Yehuda Amichai

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Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch

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mi hermana me ayudo a comprar el libro de las maravillas de ausburgo (wunderzeichenbuch ☝️) siempre siempre lo quise (desde que supe de su existencia xd) ni siqiiera sabia que existia en formato libro moderno y llega el 2 de enero :)

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327. Alkahest - Kvelgeyst (Black Metal, 2019)

Art out of the "The Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch)", 16th century

The identities of the creators of the manuscript remain something of a mystery. The name of the Augsburg artist and printmaker Hans Burgkmair appears on one page of the manuscript. Till-Holger Borchert, an expert in German Medieval art, suggests that, as Burgkmair the Elder died in the 1530s, the artist in question here must be his son, Hans Burgkmair the Younger, who is much less well attested by known works.

The manuscript has no introduction, title page, list of contents or dedication that would be usual for the time. Instead it launches straight into its sequence of illustrations and commentary. It is written in rough chronological order, from the Old Testament through various phenomena and portents from Antiquity up to the time of production and finishing with the Book of Revelation

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Above: The 'Kometenbuch' ('The Comet Book'), 1587. Link here.

Below: The 'Augsburger wunderzeichenbuch' (The Augsburg Book of Wonders' ), c. 1550. More info here (N.B. the link leads to lots of images from the Taschen publication of the book).

Source: The new archive database of the Public Domain Review, i.e. the Public Domain Image Archive (link here). Images can be browsed by 'Category View', or if you like finding your images serendipitously, there's 'Infinite View', which means the resource can be searched by scrolling up, down, left, right, or you can try 'Shuffle View'. The archive is, and I quote from the website: "a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse." No pics from The Nuremberg Chronicle, though!

(Although the houses depicted in this scene below are reminiscent of the city views featured in the Chronicle. Source here).

POSTSCRIPT:

I've been working on this site for almost *fourteen years*, and I have only just discovered there is a search engine that searches blog posts in the Archive without any need for them being tagged beforehand - duh, if only I'd known!! Here's a link to a previous post about the comet of 1401 as illustrated in the aforementioned 'Augsburger wunderzeichenbuch'.

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Tiber River Monster, inspired by Folio 90 of the Wunderzeichenbuch (Book of Miracles), Augsburg, circa 1550

“In A.D. 1496, in the month of January, at the time The Tiber burst its banks high and wide near Rome: what wondrous creature appeared, found dead where the raging and the might of the Tiber's waters had subsided, and was in this shape and form, as it is painted there.”

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Unknown “Das Zeichen des Bundes” "The sign of the covenant" Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch — Folio 2 (Genesis 9, 12-15) circa 1552 drawing

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[image description: a digital drawing of albedo from genshin impact. he is gazing at his hands in wonder and with a sense of sadness. the background depicts a shooting star and is inspired by the augsburger wunderzeichenbuch.]

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"For her current exhibition at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Agnes Scherer has produced an installation consisting of nine monumental, supersized “laptop simulations”, whose painted flat screens display mythical and puzzlingly mysterious scenarios alongside elements of “contemporary folklore”: With reference to the gouache collection of the Augsburg Book of Miracles [Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch] from the 16th Century – in which natural phenomena are presented as portents or premonitions – Scherer too illustrates numerous wondrous occurrences and inexplicable cosmic phenomena in combination with error messages from the Windows operating system and endlessly multiplying programme windows. Her pictorial creations are commented on by texts and messages, which she has inscribed as pointers to her own authorship on the keyboards of the mobile computers – here, instead of regular keyboards, can be found, for example, sequences of letters and signs transformed into subjective codes, or also a self-portrait of the artist."

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may many wunders come your way!

Images from the Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book of Miracles) - ca. 1552 - via Wikimedia

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Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch - 1552