Editing Codex Seraphinianus (section)

==Description==

The ''Codex'' is an encyclopedia in [[manuscript]] with copious hand-drawn, colored-pencil illustrations of bizarre and fantastical [[flora]], [[fauna]], anatomies, fashions, and foods.<ref name=enfic>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages |title=Codex Seraphinianus |author=Tim Conley |author2=Stephen Cain |author2-link=Stephen Cain (poet) |year=2006 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn=0-313-33188-X |pages=30–31}}</ref> It has been compared to the still undeciphered [[Voynich manuscript]],<ref name=hidden>{{cite book |last=Berloquin |first=Pierre |title=Hidden Codes & Grand Designs: Secret Languages from Ancient Times to Modern Day |publisher=[[Sterling Publishing]] |year=2008 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hiddencodesgrand0000berl/page/300 300–302] |chapter=Chapter 10: The Cipher Gallery |isbn=978-1-4027-2833-4 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/hiddencodesgrand0000berl/page/300 }}</ref> the story "[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]" by [[Jorge Luis Borges]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Codex Seraphinianus |url=http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/codex_seraphinianus |author=Antoinette LaFarge |publisher=[[University of California, Irvine]] |access-date=2012-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120012304/http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/codex_seraphinianus |archive-date=2011-11-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the artwork of [[M. C. Escher#Works|M. C. Escher]]<ref name=searles /> and [[Hieronymus Bosch]].<ref name=ttot /><ref name=enfic />

The illustrations are often [[Surrealism|surreal]]<ref name=enfic /><ref name=searles /><ref name=wildb /> [[parody|parodies]] of things in the real world, such as a bleeding fruit, a plant that grows into roughly the shape of a chair and is subsequently made into one, and a [[Sexual intercourse|copulating couple]] who metamorphose into an [[alligator]]. Others depict odd, apparently senseless machines, often with delicate appearances and bound by tiny filaments. Some illustrations are recognizable as maps or human faces, while others (especially in the "physics" chapter) are mostly or totally abstract.<ref name=ttot /> Nearly all of the illustrations are brightly coloured and highly detailed.