You can study a 165-pound book directly on your laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

The uniformity suggests that the scribe may have worked under an intense, obsessive state of isolation, which likely gave birth to the legend of the single-night creation. 4. Inside the Pages: What is Written in the Codex?

Because the Codex Gigas is from the 13th century, it is in the . There is no copyright on the content of the book. Therefore, the National Library of Sweden has made the official Codex Gigas .pdf available for free, non-commercial use directly on their website.

According to medieval folklore, the book was written by a single monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive. To save his life, he promised the monastery he would write a book containing all human knowledge in a single night.

If you download a , you will find several distinct texts written in Latin: The Vulgate Bible: The complete Old and New Testaments.

It stands roughly 92 cm (36 in) tall, 50 cm (20 in) wide, and 22 cm (8.7 in) thick.