‘The Book of Miracles,’ a nearly complete illustrated manuscript from the Renaissance, will be published in a new book. ‘The Book of Miracles,’ which surfaced a few years ago and recently entered a private collection, is composed of 169 pages with large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor depicting celestial phenomena and constellations as well as scenes from the Old Testament and medieval tales.
The book was assembled by Till-Holger Borchert, an expert in Early Netherlandish paintings and the chief curator at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, and Joshua P. Waterman, an expert on German art of the late medieval and early modern periods and a research associate at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
Borchert and Waterman’s book includes ‘The Book of Miracles’ in its entirety for the first time, an introduction that helps explain the volume’s cultural and historical context, and an extensive description of the manuscript and its miniatures, as well as a complete transcript of the work’s text.
