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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]
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 Codex Gigas (English: Giant Book) is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. It is also known as the Devil's Bible because of a large illustration of the devil on the inside and the legend surrounding its creation.
"The Recluse" is an epithet applied to: . Abramios the Recluse (290–360), Christian hermit and ascetic from Edessa; Herman the Recluse, according to legend, a 13th-century Benedictine monk who wrote the Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible
It was in this connection that the 13th-century “Devil's Bible” (the Codex Gigas) came to Stockholm. [11] Queen Christina took much of this material with her to Rome after she abdicated the Swedish throne, but the royal collections continued to grow during the reign of Charles X Gustav through additional spoils of war and purchases abroad.
Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible, a 13th-century illuminated manuscript The Satanic Bible , a 1969 book by Anton LaVey The Satanic Scriptures , a 2007 book by Peter H. Gilmore
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Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Royal Library (Codex Gigas (Devil's Bible)) Bible Moralisée ... Codex latinus 2941 in the Bibliotheca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia.