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The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. [1]The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
Codex Gigas. Not a single Old Latin manuscript transmitting the full text of the NT has survived to our day. However, 32 manuscripts containing the Gospels, 12 Acts, 4 Paul's epistles and 1 Revelation, plus a number of fragments have survived, making a total of 89 manuscripts. They date from the 4th to 13th centuries.
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Leningrad/Petrograd Codex text sample, portions of Exodus 15:21-16:3. A Hebrew Bible manuscript is a handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) made on papyrus, parchment, or paper, and written in the Hebrew language (some of the biblical text and notations may be in Aramaic).
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
Illustration of the Devil on Codex Gigas, early thirteenth century. Satan, [a] also known as the Devil, [b] is an entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or 'evil inclination'.
Herman the Recluse (Latin: Hermannus Heremitus) was, according to legend, a thirteenth-century Benedictine monk best known as the author (actual or supposed) of the Codex Gigas—the "Devil's Bible". The legend states that, as a resident of the Benedictine Monastery of Podlazice , Herman the Recluse was condemned to be walled up alive and ...
The earliest is held at the Abbey library of Saint Gall in Switzerland, [46] a 9th-century copy of Books XI to XX forming part of the Codex Sangallensis. [51] The 13th-century Codex Gigas held in the National Library of Sweden , the largest extant medieval manuscript, contains a copy of the Etymologiae .