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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]
This is a list of notable codices. 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.)
The numbers (#) are the now standard system of Gregory-Aland. Dates are estimated palaeographically by the INTF (except Codex Vaticanus 354 where the scribe gave a date — 949). Content generally only describes sections of the New Testament: Gospels (Gosp), The Acts of the Apostles (Acts), Pauline Epistles (Paul), Catholic epistles (CE), and ...
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 ...
Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek.
The codex is a palimpsest. [2] From its location in Léon, this palimpsest is sometimes referred to as the Codex Legionensis; but this name is more commonly applied to the 10th-century Vulgate Bible at the Basilica of San Isidoro, León (Codex Gothicus Legionensis, or 91, 92 and 133 in the Beuron system). [1]
Minuscule 69 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 505 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), [1] known as the Codex Leicester, or Codex Leicestrensis, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper and parchment leaves.
Codex Sangallensis is a Greek-Latin diglot uncial manuscript of the four Gospels. It is designated by Δ or 037 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε76 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.