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Analysis Of The Giant Codex Gigas: The Devil's Bible

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Codex Gigas, otherwise known as ‘the Devil’s Bible’ is the largest and probably one of the strangest manuscripts in the world. It is so large that it is said to have taken more than 160 animal skins to make it and takes at least two people to lift it. It measures approximately 1 metre in length. According to legend, the medieval manuscript was made out of a pact with the ‘devil’, which is why it is sometimes referred to as the Devil’s Bible. It was written in Latin during the 13thcentury AD, and although theoriginof the manuscript is unknown, a note in the manuscript states that it was pawned in the monastery at Sedlec in 1295.
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The story behind the making of Codex Gigas (“the giant codex”) is that it was the work of one monk who was sentenced

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