The Codex Gigas, also called the Devilās Bible, was likely written in Bohemia between 1204 and 1230, and its earliest known owner was the Benedictine monastery at Podlažice. It was pawned to the Sedlec Cistercian monastery in 1295 and then acquired by the BÅevnov Benedictine monastery. Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II took it to Prague in 1594. In 1648, at the end of the Thirty Yearsā War, Swedish troops seized it as booty and carried it to Stockholm. It survived a palace fire there in 1697 by being thrown from a window and was later repaired. After years in the Swedish royal palace and libraries, it is now in the National Library of Sweden. In 2007ā08 it temporarily returned to Prague for an exhibition at the National Library of the Czech Republic.
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