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	Grey Lodge Occult Review :: Issue #17 :: Codex Seraphinianus ::
		To assert that the text of the Codex Seraphinianus is equivocal is also to say this of the things depicted therein, the ordered images of a utopia, of a not-place.
		As an encyclopedia, fictional though it may be, the Codex Seraphinianus is devoted to the classificatory way of "seeing things." But its text and its illustrations alike, hovering uneasily between a recognizable real and a baffling unreal, partake as well in that other sense of "seeing things" with which I have dealt here: hallucination.
		But a book like the Codex Seraphinianus reminds us that categories themselves, with their claims to reflect the real, may be the most delusory hallucination of all.
	www.greylodge.org /occultreview/glor_017/codex.htm (3352 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> fr:Codex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The codex was an improvement upon the scroll, which it gradually replaced as the written medium.
		From the fourth century, when the codex gained wide acceptance, to the Carolingian Renaissance in the eighth century, many works that were not converted from scroll to codex were lost to posterity.
		The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/fr:Codex (477 words)

	Lyon Opera Ballet -- Review, Higgins
		Inspired by Codex Seraphinianus, “A Visual Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe,” by Italian artist and naturalist Luigi Serafini, Tricodex is the final installment in a trilogy that Decoufle premiered in the 1980s.
		Codex (1986) and Decodex (1995) were the first two installments that Decoufle staged on his own company, Compagnie DCA.
		Decoufle used Codex Seraphinianus as a visual springboard to develop a mystical world, juxtaposing various bizarre elements as the performers explored their ability to defy gravity.
	bearnstowjournal.org /higgins-rev.htm (679 words)

	MemeMachineGo!: The Codex Seraphinianus
		The Codex is a collection of original artwork by Italian artist Luigi Serafini, presented as a travalogue or scientific study of an alien world.
		On the other hand, I did recently acquire a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus, and it is even more wonderful and fascinating in person, not to mention that it is an absolutely luxurious volume (lavish binding, handmade paper).
		My parents have a copy of Codex, I used to stare at the illustrations and try to figure out what they meant and what they were trying to portray.
	www.mememachinego.com /2002/09/the_codex_seraphinianus.html (454 words)

	One of the great mysteries of all time, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is finally broken !
		After a careful study of the phenomena known as the Codex Seraphinianus I have discovered the 'Jewel hidden in plain sight' and deciphered the other rosetta stone - the one that was contained inside an image known as the Matrix.
		Interesting information reguarding codex deciphering efforts can be found here.
		The theory that one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
	www.cr.cx /seraphinianus/codex (2154 words)

	Another Green World: The Codex Seraphinianus at { feuilleton } (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Codex was first drawn to my attention not by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadaluppi’s excellent Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980) (where it would be excluded anyway, since it doesn’t concern a place located on the Earth) but in Metamagical Themas (1985), a book of essays by computer scientist Douglas R Hofstadter.
		Made entirely of invented words and pictures, the Codex Seraphinianus must be read without the help of a common language, through signs for which there are no meanings except those furnished by a willing and inventive reader.
		It might even be argued that the Codex Seraphinianus is one of the purest works of fantasy, one that affects no compromise with supporting narrative or histrionic drama but aims straight for the gold.
	www.johncoulthart.com /feuilleton/?page_id=108 (1666 words)

	Peter Schwenger Codex Seraphinianus
		The word is formed by analogy with oral glossolalia, the phenomenon of "speaking in strange tongues" --but it refers to the inscription of imaginary languages in a text, where it is the glyph (sign, character) rather than the glossé (tongue) that babbles (lalein).
		As with glossolalia, it simultaneously invites and withstands attempts at interpretation; thus its relation to meaning is, as de Certeau has it, "in the mode of equivocation" (36; emphasis in the original).
		For the first time, on this last page, the Codex's text -whose letters have been so tidy, orderly, and consistent as almost to seem a type font- betrays that it has been written by a human hand: there are revisions of the text, with words crossed out at certain places and inserts added at others.
	faculty.msvu.ca /pschwenger/codex.htm (3390 words)

	The Believer - The Codex Seraphinianus
		Codex Seraphinianus is a clickable link, but I was more interested in contacting him than in secondary sources, so I plugged luigiserafini.com into my browser and, happily, was directed to his website.
		Danto, when coaxed to respond to the Codex, tossed out Isidore of Seville, the entire history of scientific illustration, Breton’s futile attempts to introduce a new letter to the French alphabet, the Codex Leonardo (da Vinci, that is), and the writings of Borges and Italo Calvino.
		The Codex Seraphinianus purports not simply to be about another world but also to be a document from that world.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200705/?read=article_taylor (5505 words)

	Codex Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		The Food Chemicals Codex is the accepted standard for defining the quality and purity of food chemicals.
		Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol
		Originally written in the Aztec language, this 16th-century codex was the first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_2/Codex.html (619 words)

	Codex Seraphinianus - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by the Italian painter Luigi Serafini during the late 1970s.
		The book is 364 pages long, and appears to be a travelogue of an alien world, and written in a strange alien language.
		The false writing system appears modelled on ordinary Western-style writing systems (left-to-right writing in rows; an alphabet with uppercase and lowercase, and probably contains a separate set of symbols for writing numerals) but is much more curvilinear.
	education.music.us /C/Codex-Seraphinianus.htm (480 words)

	Serafini's Codex
		The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by Italian graphic designer and architect, Luigi Serafini during the late 1970's.
		The Codex is a lavishly produced book that purports to be an encyclopedia for an imaginary world in a parallel universe, with copious comments in an incomprehensible language.
		Codex Seraphinianus is a rare and expensive book, it can be ordered from Amazon.com.
	www.archimedes-lab.org /Serafi/C_serafini.html (414 words)

	Codex Seraphinianus (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Codex is an encyclopedia for a fictional world, written in a fictional language.
		Rather, the Codex is sort of an elaborate pun on, or parody of, the real world.
		A lot of the odd effect comes from parallelism between illustrations on a page -- Serafini plays with our desire to find patterns by providing just enough consistency to draw us into looking for an internal logic where there is none.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/codexseraphinianus.html (138 words)

	Codex Seraphinianus
		The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by Italian artist, Luigi Serafini[?] during the late 1970s.
		This book, which is 300-odd pages long, consists of illustrations of a fantasy world, together with "explanatory" text in a made-up writing system.
		If you wish to view it, I suggest borrowing it from a public library.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Codex_Seraphinianus.html (154 words)

	Greetings from a new (to tribe.net) S... - Seraphinians - tribe.net
		My name is Tad, and you may know me from such online Seraphinian webpages as Orkut.com's Codex Seraphinianus community, and the Codex wiki (www.blinkenlichten.info/codex/).
		You can't join orkut.com without an invitation, so that Codex community is at a meager couple dozen (and 90% of them are Brazilian).
		As far as my history with the Codex, after reading about it in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Metamagical Themas", I researched it a bit on the web and decided to buy my own copy of it a couple years ago.
	seraphinianus.tribe.net /thread/90ecc838-915b-4eba-b6e0-616334139097 (336 words)

	Communications From Elsewhere » Blog Archive » codex seraphinianus
		I should have bought a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus last year, when it was going for $300.
		I have a copy of the American edition of Codex Seraphinianus 1st Edition printed in 1983 in mint condition with the dust cover for 450.00 plus shipping.
		If you have something to say that isn't directly related to the topic of this page ("codex seraphinianus"), please say it on the page specifically for that, not here.
	www.elsewhere.org /journal/archives/2001/09/06/codex-seraphinianus (455 words)

	Codex Seraphinianus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language of the codex has defied complete analysis by linguists for decades.
		A rare and expensive work, the original edition was issued in two volumes (Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus, Milano: Franco Maria Ricci [I segni dell'uomo], 1981, 127+127 pp., 108+128 plates, ISBN 88-216-0026-2 + ISBN 88-216-0027-0).
		Tricodex, an acrobatic ballet inspired by the Codex Seraphinianus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus (420 words)

	Amazon.com: Codex Seraphinianus: Books: Luigi Serafini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Codex is phenomenal publication: over 100 pages of hand-written nonsense language; and hundreds of nonsense drawings.
		The Codex Seraphinianus is to that world what Diderot's Encyclopaedia is to ours, only lavishly and artistically illustrated.
		A feast for the eyes, a tease for the brain, to which you will find yourselves drawn again and again, and again, in ever renewed fascination.
	www.amazon.com /Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/0896594289 (1329 words)

	Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Codex Seraphinianus
		The grand thing is like a refugee from a lost Borges story, an encyclopedia (sort of) of a world which doesn't exist, although it's composed of stuff from our own.
		It's written in a language that stirs the souls of cryptographers, and illustrated in the mode of inspired surrealism.
		Via InfoCult, please welcome the Codex Seraphinianus, an Orbus Tertius-esque fictive antique document perpetrated in 1981, in an encoded invented language and with the occasional surrealist illumination in place of your standard encyclopedia illustrat...
	infocult.typepad.com /infocult/2005/07/codex_seraphini.html (389 words)

	Stone Cold Pimpin': The Codex Seraphinaianus
		Fans of surrealism, fantasy, and late '70s European illustration should find much to groove on in Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus, a 400-page imaginary encyclopedia of a world similar to ours populated by bizarre creatures.
		There is, however, a site devoted to the Codex.
		And apparently Serafini is just updating the original "mysterious" work, the Voynich Manuscript.
	www.tedmills.com /2004/09/the_codex_seraphinaianus.html (167 words)

	GLOR XVII \| MetaFilter
		The Codex is one of my favorite books, and occupies pride of place at the top of my bookshelf.
		This link sheds some light: the author (Ivan Derzhanski) writes: They say that the text of the Codex Seraphinianus was never meant to mean anything; all the same, I mean to treat it here as if it was.
		And I was turned on to the Codex Seraphinianus a while ago, and I still think it's amazing.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/43409 (1033 words)

	Codex Seraphinianus - Links
		Codex Seraphinianus: Some Observations - some detailed analysis, including a description of how the book's numbering system works
		Codex Wiki on Blinkenlichen.info - A new site that hopes to become a useful resource for the reader of the codex, and to use statistical means to try and decypher the language.
		Archimedes' Lab has a short article about the Codex, along with a few images, and some information about Luigi Serafini.
	www.grapefruitopia.com /seraphinianus/links.shtml (177 words)

	Codex Seraphinianus: Some Observations
		They say that the text of the Codex Seraphinianus was never meant to mean anything; all the same, I mean to treat it here as if it was.
		I don't own a copy of the Codex; I'm working from some notes I took in Michael Everson's library.
		Page numbering is reset to 1 at the beginning of the sixth chapter; the codex is thus divided into two volumes of approximately equal size, without distinctive titles, but with lines to the effect of `End of A
	www.math.bas.bg /~iad/serafin.html (1250 words)

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