The Codex Gigas (English: Giant Book) is the largest medieval manuscript in the world. It is also known as the Devil’s Bible because of a great illustration of the Devil on the inside and the legend surrounding his creation. It is thought to have been created at the beginning of the 12th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia (Czech Republic). It contains the Vulgate Bible as well as many historical documents all written in Latin. Eventually finding his way to the Imperial Library of Rodolphe II, the entire collection was taken as war booty by the Swedes in 1648 during the Thirty Years War, and the manuscript is now preserved in the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm, on the screen for the general public.