5/6/07

Codex Gigas!


Devil's Bible returns home but only for few months.....

The Codex Gigas is one of the largest manuscripts in the world, (hence Gigas, Greek for 'giant'). It was created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia, and is now in the National Library of Sweden, where two librarians are needed to lift it. It is also known as the Devil's Bible due to a large illustration of the devil on the inside.

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