tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8491513761203273622024-03-21T17:25:35.019-07:00The Nine Gates To The Kingdom Of ShadowsPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08962392242053650484noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849151376120327362.post-33096696954934880142012-02-13T20:11:00.000-08:002013-07-26T12:05:50.140-07:00The Bookbinder Creates Nonus Porta for Johnny Depp - Nine Gates to the Kingdom of Shadows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08962392242053650484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849151376120327362.post-75814518385727862372008-04-14T13:15:00.003-07:002013-07-26T12:07:02.218-07:00NONUS PORTA - THE NINTH GATE<span style="color: #ffff33; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">This site was updated July 2013</span><br />
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I was inspired by the the film the Ninth Gate to reproduce the book featured...... but with a twist.<br />
Those of you accessing this page will know that the film is based on the novel El Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, and stars Johnny Depp as Dean Corso, a rare-book dealer hired by a wealthy book collector to validate a copy of <i>The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows</i>, a book by the 17th century author Aristide Torchia.<br />
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The book in the film consists of paragraphs of printed text that is repeated called "filler text" and doesn't actually mean anything. Even the title "<span style="font-weight: bold;">DE VMBRARVM REGNI NOVEM PORTIS</span>" doesn't translate correctly (The "Umbrella" Kingdom of Nine?) Portis is not a Latin word. The true title is <span style="font-weight: bold;">UT REGNUM DE UMBRA NONUS PORTA, </span>"Porta" meaning "Gate" or "gate to a city."<br />
The twist being:- My version comprises of "Nine Books of the Mysterious Arts" each "gate" opening a genuine book of alchemy or occult lore.<br />
These are some of the pages I have typeset and printed on an antique laid.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08962392242053650484noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849151376120327362.post-42383862435752001592008-04-14T13:15:00.001-07:002013-07-26T11:11:37.607-07:00NONUS PORTA - THE NINTH GATEThe text is printed in a 17th century type face and the first mystery is the "<b>Clavicle</b>" or The Greater Key of Solomon in Two Books. Each book is an important occult or alchemy work that is preceded by a title page, a numbered "gate" with the Latin empowerment and the tarot style illustration signed either <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">AT </span>or <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">LCF</span><br />
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The endpapers are hand marbled in the black antique spot design.</div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08962392242053650484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849151376120327362.post-26360068303826443282008-04-14T13:14:00.006-07:002013-07-26T11:32:43.843-07:00NONUS PORTA - THE NINTH GATENonus Porta will be by commission only, for serious practitioners/collectors. I will only be making between 4 and 6 copies per year.<br />
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The book is hand sewn on raised cords with laced-in boards in a 17thC "herringbone" stitch, see the vid on colouring the leather, 12 layers are used to make the black, the first colour being yellow. The leather is bordered with a grain and pared by hand.<br />
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I also do a variant copy as you can see.</div>
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