Codex Gigas

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This massive medieval manuscript, nicknamed "The Devil's Bible," contains multiple lengthy entries, a few shorter pieces, and several illustrations. Written by a single scribe, the Codex Gigas is often sensationalized in stories about its creation.

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0:00.0	And now for today's Roblox Winter Weather Alert,
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0:27.7	Head to iHeartRadio.com slash iHeartland today.
0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:35.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.7	I'm Holly Fry.
0:44.7	I'm Tracy V Wilson.
0:46.7	And hey Tracy, we have not done a historical manuscript episode in a while.
0:49.7	I know we haven't.
0:51.7	And the Voynich manuscript episode that we did was very, very popular,
0:54.7	but part of that is because it is mysterious,
0:57.7	and people are constantly trying to decode and crack it.
1:00.7	The one that we're talking about today comes with a little bit of mystery,
1:03.7	but I would say less than the Voynich manuscript.
1:06.7	But unlike the Voynich manuscript, we do know what this one says.
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