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    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). Very...
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  • from Ultraman Codex Gigas, a medieval manuscript gigue or giga, a dance People Erwin Gigas [de] (1899–1976), German geodesist Johannes Gigas (1514–1581)...
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    The codex (pl.: codices /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of...
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  • 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...
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    fróði#Icelandic folklore). According to a medieval legend associated with the Codex Gigas, the scribe was a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced...
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    surviving manuscript copies is the 13th-century Codex Gigas; the earliest surviving manuscript, the Codex Sangallensis, preserves books XI to XX from the...
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    ciphers Book of Soyga Codex Gigas Codex Seraphinianus Copiale cipher False document Fictional language Oera Linda Book Rohonc Codex Rongorongo Undeciphered...
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    from the original languages was published between 1579 and 1593. The Codex Gigas from the 12th century is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the...
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  • is about the cave where queen of sorcessess Agrat bat Mahlat dwells. Codex Gigas is about the book of the same name and its legend, that states it was...
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  • Columba Codex Amiatinus, Vulgate, c. 700 Codex Argenteus, Gothic Bible, 6th century Codex Gigas, the largest manuscript of the World, 13th century Codex Sinaiticus...
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    (175-225) Codex Vaticanus (325-350; complete) Codex Sinaiticus (330-360) Codex Bezae (~400) Codex Washingtonianus (~400) Codex Alexandrinus (400-440) Codex Ephraemi...
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  • are the Masoretic Text, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008). Fragments of this book...
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    monastery in Podlažice was founded in 1159. The monastery is where the Codex Gigas (or "Devil's Bible") was produced. It remains the largest extant medieval...
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    It was in this connection that the 13th-century “Devil's Bible” (the Codex Gigas) came to Stockholm. Queen Christina took much of this material with her...
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  • of Twelve Minor Prophets (the first book is the Book of Hosea) in the Codex Gigas, the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world, from 13th century...
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    still exists, it is in very poor condition. They also took the Codex Gigas and the Codex Argenteus. The earliest evidence indicates that a gonfalon with...
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    tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008)...
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  • the Masoretic Text, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), and Codex Leningradensis (1008). Fragments of the...
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    Illustration of the Devil on folio 290 recto of the Latin, Bohemian Codex Gigas, dating to the early thirteenth century...
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    0028 in × 0.0039 in). The largest surviving medieval manuscript is the Codex Gigas or 'Devil's Manuscript', with dimensions of 920 mm × 500 mm (36 in × 20 in)...
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  • Book Flateyjarbók Codex Gigas Codex Grandior Codex Hierosolymitanus Hildegard of Bingen#Works Hitda Codex Hypatian Codex Heidelberg Codex In Lebor Ogaim...
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    Many of the treasures collected by Emperor Rudolf II (such as the Codex Gigas and Codex Argenteus) were taken to Sweden, where some can be found in Drottningholm...
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    Folio 1 of the Codex Gigas, showing Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Glagolitic, and Early Cyrillic abecedaria...
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    com. 30 September 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2015. Describing the Codex Gigas, a thirteenth-century manuscript from Bohemia in the Swedish National...
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    different kinds"), among them two world-famous manuscripts: the Codex Argenteus and the Codex Gigas. In 1649, 760 paintings, 170 marble and 100 bronze statues...
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    support of this single piece of hearsay has ever been discovered. The Codex Gigas was also in his possessions. As was typical of the time, Rudolf II had...
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  • Conqueror Besieging Palma, Majorca 1229: The illuminated manuscript Codex Gigas is completed 1227: Anonymous stained glass north transept rose window...
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    doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.29. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 164175193. Describing the Codex Gigas, a thirteenth-century manuscript from Bohemia in the Swedish National...
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  • tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008)...
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    are: Codex Vaticanus (325-350; complete) Codex Sinaiticus (330-360; complete) Codex Bezae (~400; complete) Codex Alexandrinus (400-440; complete) Codex Ephraemi...
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