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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 is the largest medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
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 ...
The Codex Gigas (English: 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.
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 Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1.D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manuscript of the Greek Bible, [n 1] written on parchment.
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A summary of the Damascus Pentateuch was made by Israel Yeivin, in connection with the problems of the Aleppo Codex. [10] According to Yeivin, the textus receptus [broken anchor] of the Damascus Pentateuch is mostly harmonious with the Leningrad Codex. As for the variants in vocalization it follows that of Ben Asher up to 52% of the time, and ...