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The Bible of the Devil
Abstract
National Geographic last Friday, April 10 brought the documentary about the "Bible of the Devil" written by a Benedictine Monaco. Nat Geo is not new to contribute to important discoveries, and to disseminate the results of research, whose contributions have been appreciated by most historians on both sides of the Atlantic to the DIL.
When the team of experts who have viewed the Codex palaeographers Bible (it's available online, and referral links below) agree that this is the work of a single editor.
Which hypotheses can be deduced? Opera diabolical work of genius or superior? Who is fasting of Palaeography and Diplomatic, the sciences dealing with the study of ancient manuscripts and inscriptions, which ignores the Codex are numerous editorial errors, what today we would call printing errors: well the team is unanimous in supporting that the Codex Gigas without errors. So the editor was not any monaco, but it was a man of letters. Another assumption made is that some designs (miniatures of the codex) do not comply with the clichés common in the Middle Ages (especially those related to angels and devils), I personally consider it a fact irrelevant because the many biblical codex in the geographic area in our possession deformed they were drafted. Codex of the Mediterranean area are deformed by the Codex of the Nordic area, and that of Gigas falls into the second area of \u200b\u200bcreation. Within the Codex stands a giant monster of a demon, (see photo above) but in contrast to another image: that of paradise.
Here are links where you can see the Codex digitized:
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/Svensk-Codex-Gigas/short/ (main page);
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/Svensk-Codex -Gigas/bladdra / (codex digitized).
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