Culture&Arts Nilgun Salim
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Codex Gigas is the biggest European manuscript of the Middle Ages and it was discovered in the summer of 1648, at the end of a war that lasted no less than three decades.
The world’s interest in this book was, in fact, awakened by a very detailed portrait of the devil
Codex Gigas coms with impressive dimensions: a 22.1 centimeters thickness, 310 pages and weighs nearly 75 kilograms.
The legend says the manuscript was written by a monk who violated his oath after he received the death penalty.
He had to write a book that encompassed all human knowledge and to finish in one night.
Desperate, the Lord’s servant asked the devil to help him.
Although he did receive help, the maleficent entity left a mark in the book through a portrait.
For this reason, the book is also known by experts as the Devil’s Bible, according to Vintage News.
According to an expert analyze, it took more than one night to complete the manuscript, but the work was done with one hand.
The anonymous author from Bohemia of the thirteenth century spent his entire adult life writing the manuscript.
The Codex wishes to be a historical book, containing writings by the Roman historian Flavius Josephus of the first century BC, a seventeenth-century encyclopedia written by St. Isidor of Seville and The Chronicles of Bohemia, written by a Czech monk known as Cosmas, who lived between 1045 and 1125.
Other short medical paragraphs complete the volume.
The devil’s portrait remains the main feature of the book. Drawing is interesting in terms of size, because it occupies nearly half the size of a page.
The Codex can no longer be seen by the general public.
Previously, the manuscript was held in Stockholm, but it was transferred to Prague in 2007, where it remained for a year.
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