MYSTICAL: The Devil’s Bible
Around the year 1229, one Bohemian monk supposedly made a deal with the devil resulting in a giant book that was written in one single night. As the book exchanged hands over the following centuries, it was said to be cursed, even hypnotizing those who laid eyes on it. Today, the manuscript sits in a library in Stockholm, but nobody has fully explained how it was written or where its missing pages went or said.
1) The image of the Devil in the Codex Gigas, courtesy of Wikipedia and Kungl. Biblioteket
2) Portrait of Josephus in the Codex Gigas courtesy of wikipedia and Benedictine monastery of Podlažice - http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/
3) Image of the Codex Gigas for scale courtesy of PraguePost.com
4) Cover of the Codex Gigas courtesy of Sharon Hahn Darlin/CC BY 2.0 and Ancient Origins.net
Episode Source Material
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**Note, according to the National Library of Sweden’s website: “The images may be used freely, on condition that photographer Per B. Adolphson is credited and that the image source is cited as follows: The National Library of Sweden, HS A 148.”
- Wikipedia and Kungl. Biblioteket
- Wikipedia and Benedictine monastery of Podlažice – http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/ via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas#/media/File:CodexGigas_233_I-IIMaccabees.jpg
- PraguePost.com
- Sharon Hahn Darlin/CC BY 2.0 and Ancient Origins.net
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