Signs of Man
6460 Storie prodigiose
Manoscritto 136 Wellcome Library
Pierre Boaistuau
2000 / 240 PAGES.
Language: Italian edition with parallel text in Spanish, French/English
The swan song of Renaissance illumination: a manuscript devoted to all sorts of marvels, with miniatures commissioned by the author for Elizabeth I.
Siamese twins and monstrous beings, devils and ghosts, floods and earthquakes, lavish feasts and mysterious visions: this whimsical Renaissance manuscript, which the French author had illuminated in Paris as a gift for Queen Elizabeth I, describes all sorts of marvels and oddities – enough to satisfy even the most regal curiosity.