The 'Codex Gigas,' an 800-year-old manuscript and the largest of the Middle Ages, has a history as outsized as its dimensions. The Codex Gigas at an exhibit in Klementinum, Czech National Library, in ...
In 13th-century Bohemia, a condemned monk struck a deal: if he could write a book of all earthly knowledge in one night, he would be spared execution. He did — and the result was the Codex Gigas. A ...