Astronomical Events Depicted in The Book of Miracles

Tthe Augsburg Wunderzeichenbuch is a 16th Century illuminated manuscript that was produced in Germany. It consists of 123 hand painted folios depicting various ‘miraculous events’ and loosely linking them to biblical and non-biblical events. Many of the folios depict perfectly ordinary astronomical events such as eclipses, meteor showers, comets and atmospheric optics displays but painted in a dramatic yet charming style. This talk takes a look at some of the interesting astronomy events contained within this book.

Mary McIntyre, an Oxfordshire based amateur astronomer, astrophotographer, speaker, author and podcast co-host who has had a life-long interest in Astronomy. Mary appeared on the May 2023 episode of The Sky at Night on BBC4 talking about the GMN meteor camera network.