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

  3. Talk:Codex Gigas - Wikipedia

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    The devil picture appears on page 577 of the book (according to the text and reference) not page 270 as the caption to the image previously stated (I checked 270 and it wasn't illustrated). I've changed the caption Adlab 21:37, 11 February 2010 (UTC) It's not page 577 or page 270. Medieval manuscripts are not numbered in pages.

  4. Early translations of the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Ambrosianus A and Codex Ambrosianus B contain fragments of all of Paul's Letters, but only 2 Corinthians has survived in its entirety. Codex Ambrosianus C contains fragments of Matthew 25–27. All three date from the 5th/6th century and are kept in Milan. Codex Taurinensis contains 4 pages with fragments of Galatians and Colossians.

  5. Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Gigas from the 13th century, held at the Royal Library in Sweden. When ancient scribes copied earlier books, they wrote notes on the margins of the page (marginal glosses) to correct their text—especially if a scribe accidentally omitted a word or line—and to comment about the text. When later scribes were copying the copy, they ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Christina, Queen of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Thus, Christina acquired a number of valuable illustrated works and rare manuscripts for her library. The inventory drawn up at the time mentions 100 an allerhand Kunstbüchern ("a hundred art books of different kinds"), among them two world-famous manuscripts: the Codex Argenteus and the Codex Gigas. [38] [39]

  8. Codex - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. 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.)