The Codas Gigas official page at the National Library of Sweden You can watch a brilliant National Geographic program on the Devil’s Bible – here’s the National Geographic article that refers to it.įor more information, you can view the following: Maybe it has a touch of the infernal about it. The book survived theft from Prague and being thrown from a window to save it from a fire. The Codex Gigas weighs 165 pounds and each of its 620 pages are almost three feet long. There are pages missing which was brilliant as the search for the pages became a key part of the story that merged art history with religion, both passions of mine. The Devil’s Bible contains the books of the Latin Bible but also spells, incantations, exorcism prayers and images of the Devil and the Kingdom of Heaven. Finding himself overwhelmed and unable to complete the task, he bargained with the Devil – his soul for the finished book. In order to prevent the punishment of being walled up alive, he promised to write down all human knowledge in one night. Legend tells of its creation at the hands of monk who sinned grievously. According to some rumours, it contains all knowledge, including exorcism rituals and a drawing of the Devil. This huge book dates to the 13th-century Czech Republic. In this article, I’ve collected ten of the most mysterious occult books. J.F.Penn uses a book bound in human skin (a practice known as anthropodermic bibliopegy) in A Thousand Fiendish Angels, and again in Devianceas a skin collector reaps the tattoed bodies of outcast Londoners. Lovecraft have dabbled with inventing grimoires for their fiction.
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