Then there is a portrait of the devil, descriptions of rituals for exorcising evil spirits, the" Czech Chronicle " by Kozma of Prague, and a calendar. In it you can read the texts of the Bible, the works of "Jewish Antiquities"," The Jewish War "by Josephus, the medieval encyclopedia of "Etymology" by Isidore of Seville, medical treatises, the New Testament and instructions in repentance. The book is a collection of all the knowledge that the Benedictine Order had in the XIII century. In total, the codex has 640 pages, but 624 have come down to us, and the missing sheets were torn out of the book and destroyed in the The Middle Ages. Eight pages immediately after the portrait of the devil are filled with ink and the meaning of what is written on them, the scientists could not find out. It remains a mystery why the monk was allowed to leave such a defiant drawing. On the devil's thighs is painted a bandage made of ermine skins-a symbol of royal power, which is an unthinkable audacity for the Middle Ages.
Supporters of the mystical version of the origin of the book believe that this is a kind of mark of the lord of hell. It has a different color and style, and the page itself is darker than the others.
The drawing is placed on page 290 and stands out among the other illustrations. The codex contains the only full-length medieval depiction of the devil. The book is 90 cm high, 49 cm wide, and 22 cm thick. According to legend, Herman made a pact with Satan, who did all the work for him.ĭrawing of the Devil from the Codex Gigas» The manuscript weighed 74 kilograms, and the skins of 160 donkeys were used to create it. He kept his word, and by sunrise he had finished a book called the Codex Gigas, or The Devil's Bible. For sin, the brethren decided to immure him alive in the wall, but Herman promised the monks that in one night he would write a book that would glorify the monastery. Legend has it that Herman, a reclusive monk from the Benedictine monastery in the Czech city of Podgalice, committed a serious sin. And there were prerequisites for such a bold conclusion. Later it was called the "Book of the Devil", considering that the author of the book is Satan himself. In the first half of the XIII century, a novice of a poor Czech monastery wrote a book, which, because of its huge size, was called Codex Gigas, which means "Giant Codex" in Latin.
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