enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Codex Gigas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas

    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]

  3. Herman the Recluse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_the_Recluse

    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 ...

  4. List of illuminated manuscripts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illuminated...

    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Royal Library (Codex Gigas (Devil's Bible)) ... Codex latinus monacensis 28800 ...

  5. List of codices - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_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.)

  6. Great uncial codices - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_uncial_codices

    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.

  7. List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hebrew_Bible...

    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).

  8. Christ and Satan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_and_Satan

    Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Madison, 2019. Secondary literature. Dendle, P.J. Satan Unbound: the Devil in Old English Narrative. Liuzza, R.M. Lucas, P.J. "On the Incomplete Ending of Daniel and the Addition of Christ and Satan to MS Junius II." Anglia 97 (1979): 46-59. Sleeth, Charles R. Studies in Christ and Satan ...

  9. Codex - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex

    The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.