The Diary of Aloisius Braendt

Antwerp August 15 2017 - The leather-bound script book is old weathered perhaps even blood-stained and totally at odds with its surroundings. It looks as if it has traveled a long way through time and space just to arrive at the right moment that cold droopy-gray morning at the book market in Antwerp. Martin Kortenaer all of a sudden stands still in the miserable drizzle; his heart starts to race as his eyes remain fixated on such an archaic beauty. In all his years as a fervent book aficionado with a special passion for history and all things historical he has never seen anything like it; the script book has an aura of ancient troubled times.