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  2. Codex Gigas - Wikipedia

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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: ObÅ™í kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]

  3. List of illuminated manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF ... Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Royal Library (Codex Gigas (Devil's Bible)) Bible Moralisée ... 1629. 82 pages sewed as a codex. Brought ...

  4. Herman the Recluse - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of codices - Wikipedia

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    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. Nag Hammadi library - Wikipedia

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    It was intended as a birthday present for Jung; for this reason, this codex is typically known as the Jung Codex, being Codex I in the collection. [10] Jung's death in 1961 resulted in a quarrel over the ownership of the Jung Codex; the pages were not given to the Coptic Museum in Cairo until 1975, after a first edition of the text had been ...

  7. Christ and Satan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Codex Argenteus - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Argenteus (Latin for "Silver Book/Codex") is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript, originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language. Traditionally ascribed to the Arian bishop Wulfila , it is now established that the Gothic translation was performed by several scholars, possibly ...

  9. List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    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).