Codex Gigas: The Devil's Bible

by Herman The Recluse

THIS IS THE COMPLETE VERSION of Codex Gigas. High quality photos of the original pages. “The Codex Gigas ( 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. It is thought to have been created in the early 12th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). It contains the Vulgate Bible as well as many historical documents all written in Latin.”

Genres: Occult, Horror, Religion, Nonfiction, Research

612 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 24, 2016

Reviews

[Minura Dekkers]

your website is complete bullshit. thanku for your service 5 starts in your ass

[Evan]

Herman the Recluse, tripping on vapors of the bubbling lead concoction from the cauldron wherein he dreamed of harvesting alchemical gold, scribed this wacky medieval bible with a rad Devil drawing that made it famous. Never fully translated to English, to my knowledge, so probably won't read.

[Abdullah Raza · Rating 2 out of 5]

i want to read it but can't why?

[Sameer]

this book is i think intresting

[Mrityunjay Tiwari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't read it

[Benjamin Uke · Rating 5 out of 5]

The 'codex gigas'. An illuminated manuscript weighting at 160+ pounds and over three feet long its the only one ever illuminated book that size ever made. Very large illuminated bibles were a typical feature of Romanesque monastic book production especially hymnals (it lets the whole choir read from a single volume). But, this is truly unique. Also, as with multiple things created in Europe in the middle ages, it's barely escaped being destroyed by passing armies, first the Hussite rebellion, the thirty years war.

Written in church Latin, it contains a number of parts: the entire bible (Old and New Testaments), multiple alphabets, two works of Josephus Flavius, Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, the standard textbook for teaching medicine in the Middle Ages known as Ars medicinae (The art of medicine), the 12th-century Chronica Boëmorum (Chronicle of the Bohemians) of Cosmas of Prague, and a calendar… along with a giant drawing of the devil. (There are google translation opportunities.)
It's where it got the name, it's got a full-page portrait of Satan, and the legend surrounding its creation.

The legend is that a monk, under penalty for breaking his vows, was threatened with being walled off in a room and left to starve (cask of amontillado-style), desperate he promised to write the sum total of human knowledge in a single night. When the scribe realized that the task was beyond his powers, he asked the Devil for help in exchange for his soul (cliches gotta start somewhere). Then, what you think happened, happened. The giant tomb being marked by the devil for his handiwork.

tl;dr: big ol' ancient book that created a legend, not an occult deal so much as the medieval version of wikipedia. What is unusual is the graphology of the tomb. Handwriting analysis can be used to show who wrote a particular with attempt to determine someone's personality traits. For instance, the roundness of someone's letters shows their openness. While the personality bit is spurious, it HAS been shown to tell what emotional state the writer is in, even with professional medieval scribes.
Anyway, They calculated that hand-writing this would have taken 20 years, straight, to write it by hand. But writing analysis shows never aged, changed personality or got emotional in that time. The writing is… machine levels or precision, not a misstype, scratch, nor a change in writers... It's quite odd.

[MORNINGSTAR · Rating 5 out of 5]

i would like to know about the devil

BECAUSE

THE ARE PERSON OF FEW WORDS INT HE WHOLE ETERNITY

[Sebastian Quijano · Rating 1 out of 5]

can't rate it if i cannot read it at first

[Or Divi · Rating 1 out of 5]

deathers

[Samantha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well I would like to read this but Im not able to download the document, does anyone have a link to the document or a slideshow I can read. If so please respond to this comment.
-Thank you!

[Prince · Rating 5 out of 5]

How can i read it??

[Crookus Weswas · Rating 5 out of 5]

not a bad read. would 100% recommend for young readers!

[Morcys · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a mysterious book

[Coue]

je ne comprends pas pourquoi je ne peux pas dire le livre alors que j'ai tout fait pour pouvoir le lire