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The Devil is in the Details: Medieval Devil’s Bible Contains Portrait of Satan Himself
A great deal of time in the life of a medieval monk was spent in contemplation.
Within the abbey and monastery walls of Holy Orders across Medieval Christendom, brothers passed their days contemplating the Trinity, contemplating the devil, contemplating heaven and—by extension—contemplating hell.
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One particular monk, however, went beyond merely contemplating the devil to create an enormous illustration of him in the world’s largest (and one of the world’s strangest) medieval manuscripts: the accordingly named Devil’s Bible.
The academic name for the manuscript is the codex gigas, or “giant book” in Latin.
And giant it is. Measuring a staggering 36 inches in height, 20 inches in width, and 8.7 inches thick, it contains a remarkable 310 parchment leaves or 620 pages. Such dimensions mean that the combined leather binding, metal trim, and velum of