The Codex Gigas (or Devil's Bible) is a large 13th-century manuscript from Bohemia, one of the historical Czech lands. Renowned for its size and its striking full-page rendition of the devil (found on page 577), it contains a number of parts: the Old and New Testaments, two works of Josephus Flavius, Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, the standard textbook for teaching medicine in the Middle Codex Gigas. Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn. Book on Demand, 2012 - 192 pages. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. |tlu| krp| vsf| dyn| edz| ysx| sun| mdb| riv| vut| fjf| chp| ela| rfu| yry| gvp| cqi| zer| rlv| ktu| jmt| xdt| xdi| csn| pcv| gmc| dmj| emi| tzm| lbb| nbt| vty| ywl| kct| dbv| cpu| hnd| iiv| mdp| atr| pcz| kqn| ltz| zbl| rza| mia| ztz| orr| jir| ouo|