Codex Serafinianus - Weirdest Damn Book EVER

[Joyrex]

This is one of the strangest books I have ever seen - The Codex Serafinianus.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/codex_serafini/with/261898823/ (part 1)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/codex_serafini_2 (part 2)

[luke viia]

awesome

 

thanks for the links, seeing as this thing runs from $75 to $775 on amazon, lol

[Joyrex]

They're publishing a new edition sometime soon, so if you're into physical books, you should have a chance to get it relatively cheap.

[luke viia]

I'm more into made-up universes, but that's pretty exciting either way. Weird stuff. I like the plant that bleeds.

[zkreso]

Pretty weird and cool. I recognized this on page "177"

[chim]

Same ballpark as the Voynich manuscript

[Redruth]

 

 

 

one of the most interesting aspects of chlorophyll is how closely it resembles our red blood cells

[LimpyLoo]

wow this shit is weird

 

 

*reaches for vaseline*

[Macca]

They're publishing a new edition sometime soon, so if you're into physical books, you should have a chance to get it relatively cheap.

got linkage for this?/this strange book has always fascinated :P

[MadameChaos]

not that weird sorry.

[MisterE]

yeh i dont think it compares to the voynich manuscipt myself, since anyone can have just about anything published since the 1900s and modern art naturally results in this kind of thing springing up. it may have even been based on the voynich manuscript in concept. voynich manuscript just seems lots more mysterious, so i'd rather waste my time looking at it, and i think you can download it in its entirety here.

[YEK]

it would be better if you could read his made up language/writing

[Lewps]

Have been wanting to buy this for years.. it's great to know a new edition is being printed.

[AJW]

very refreshing to look at, think I might have to get this. Thanks for the heads up.

[hello spiral]

Have been wanting to buy this for years.. it's great to know a new edition is being printed.

[MadameChaos]

you're wasting your time with such a childish tome. you should get the red book by Carl Jung instead, now that's intense.

 

[Macca]

you're wasting your time with such a childish tome. you should get the red book by Carl Jung instead, now that's intense.

 

Jung always delivers the goods.... wouldn't exactly say the Serafinianus is childish though... e.g.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/536283_10150827212882194_1716661468_n.jpg

(slightly nsfw?) quite an insightful little bit of art I think ;)

[LimpyLoo]

This book really does look awesome and I might just buy one of the new editions.

[Boxus]

I love this book, spent loads time clicking through it in my college years.

 

It's funny how people rank so much abstract art in an obscurity contest. Voynich is more mysterious, but IMO this one is generally more fun to look at.

[Macca]

bit more info/background/chat

 

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/codex_seraphinianus_a_new_edition_of_the_strangest_book_in_the_world

[MadameChaos]

ha! that alligator thing is pretty funny.

[Joyrex]

it would be better if you could read his made up language/writing

The number system was cracked (it is a base-21 system), but the language hasn't, and people keep trying despite the author insisting on there not being a code to it. The reason he did it in a made up language was he wanted the reader to experience what children experience when they look at books before they can read, and despite not knowing what the symbols mean, they know it has meaning based on the fact their parents understand it.