Issued for the first time in 1981 by publisher Franco Maria Ricci, it has been a collector’s favorite for years, before witnessing a sudden rise in popularity thanks to a growing fandom on the Internet. Like a guide to an alien world, Codex Seraphinianus is 300 pages of descriptions and explanations for an imaginary existence, all in its own unique (and unreadable) alphabet, complete with thousands of drawings and graphs. I’ve just stepped into the bizarre universe of Codex Seraphinianus, the weirdest encyclopedia in the world. Text accompanies these surreal images, handwritten, seemingly ancient but totally unintelligible. Fish eyes from some weird creature float on the surface of the sea, staring at me. Alcune-delle-illustrazioni-del-codex-seraphinianus-9799Ī couple having sex metamorphoses into a crocodile.
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