[Illustrations in Codex Seraphinianus]

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Photographs of illustrations from a book titled "Codex Seraphinianus" held by UNT Special Collections. Image 1 depicts a scene where alien-like figures, with yellow and white mottled heads in the shape of a football on a column, are pulling human skin onto a skeleton lying down on a bed. There are books piled and arranged under the mattress to hold it up. There are more skeletons waiting their turn and some newly made humans looking at themselves in mirrors. There are hooks along the back with a hat and three human skins hung up. At the top is a secret … continued below

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3 photographs : col. ; 3586 x 3456 px.

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Creator: Unknown. October 9, 2014.

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Photographs of illustrations from a book titled "Codex Seraphinianus" held by UNT Special Collections. Image 1 depicts a scene where alien-like figures, with yellow and white mottled heads in the shape of a football on a column, are pulling human skin onto a skeleton lying down on a bed. There are books piled and arranged under the mattress to hold it up. There are more skeletons waiting their turn and some newly made humans looking at themselves in mirrors. There are hooks along the back with a hat and three human skins hung up. At the top is a secret code that the entire book is written in. Image 2 is a chart of creatures with lots of different shapes and features that look familiar but not quite real. At the top, under the drawings as labels, and as paragraphs beneath them all is a secret code that the entire book is written in. Image 3 is of a dual-sided rhinoceros; the larger side has a figure rising up where its horn should be and the figure is holding a pole with stings and hooks on it. The hooks are peeling back the skin and revealing a second smaller rhinoceros that is facing the other way.

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3 photographs : col. ; 3586 x 3456 px.

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This image was taken for use in the digital version of UNT Special Collections' Spring 2015 exhibit "Bureaucracy: A Love Story."

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  • Preferred Citation: University Photography Collection (U0458), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • October 9, 2014

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[Illustrations in Codex Seraphinianus], photograph, October 9, 2014; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633245/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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