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The Codex Gigas
The Codex Gigas, or 'Devil's Bible', is the largest known medieval manuscript, written around 1200 in a Benedictine monastery in Bohemia. It contains the complete Bible in Latin, texts by Flavius Josephus and Isidore of Seville, and medical treatises. Belonging to the Western text, it is valuable for textual criticism. A medieval legend attributes its writing in a single night to the monk Herman the Recluse, helped by the devil.
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The Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tsova) is a medieval manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, written around AD 920 in Tiberias. Regarded as the most accurate version of the Hebrew Bible, it includes Masoretic vocalization and cantillation. Kept for six centuries in Aleppo, it was partially destroyed in 1947. Now kept at the Israel Museum, it has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2016.