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"As a physical object, it is one of beauty… As an act of sustained editorial ingenuity… it is impeccable… As a work of interdisciplinary research, it is simply outstanding… [This work] can scarcely be praised too highly." Sir John A. Macdonald Prize Jury
The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas, edited and with an introduction by François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet, has been awarded the 2012 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize by the Canadian Historical Association.
Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world – flora, fauna, and aboriginal.
The Codex shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.
More on the 2012 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
François-Marc Gagnon at the Gilcrease
Museum with the original Codex
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