An article about a lavish facsimile edition of the sixteenth-century Augsburg manuscript known as The Book of Miracles, presenting more than 160 vividly illustrated visions, celestial phenomena, biblical events, natural disasters, monsters, comets, prodigies and apocalyptic signs. The volume traces miraculous and terrifying events from the Old Testament through the Book of Revelation, reflecting Renaissance beliefs about divine intervention, prophecy, wonder and catastrophe. Scholarly essays by Marina Warner, Tim Smith-Laing and other specialists place the manuscript within the religious, artistic and cultural history of sixteenth-century Europe and explore its extraordinary imagery and historical significance.

Marina Warner Tim Smith-Laing

The book of miracles