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Codex seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by italian artist, architect and industrial designer luigi serafini between 1976 to 1978. As the voynich manuscript, it is written in italy in an incomprehensible language. But the book is just so damned strange that it has accumulated a. Deciphering the mysterious encyclopedia known as the codex. Undoubtedly one of the most intricate and beautiful art books ever created, codex seraphinianus is also a timeless meditation on what reality really is, one all the timelier in todays age of such seemingly surrealist feats as bioengineering whole new lifeforms, hurling subatomic particles at each other faster than the speed of light.
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