#history Year of Our Lord 1230. Legend has it that a monk named Inclusus Hermanus Monachus (Herman the Recluse) is being held in his cell in the monastery of Podlažice (in Chrudim, in the center of the current Czech Republic) after breaking one of his vows, and for such a transgression he is condemned to be sandwiched alive. Herman is a Benedictine or black monk who has had to endure all kinds of punishments and deprivations, but who now awaits a terrible fate, since the abbot of the monastery has ordered him to be sandwiched alive. To save himself, Herman proposes something impossible to the abbot: to honor the monastery, he undertakes to write the largest codex of his time, in which he will include all the passages of the Bible and all human wisdom. And he'll write it in just one night. But unable to finish the task that he himself has set himself on time, near dawn, Herman makes a pact with Satan so that he can guide his hand and thus save his life. The fallen angel agreed to help him, but he set two conditions for him: to keep his soul and that his image appear on one of the pages.

The Gigas Codex

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