The Old Testament and the New Testament constitute about half of the Codex Gigas. Its other major works include Flavius Josephus’s History of the Jewish War and The Antiquities of the Jews, St. Isidore of Sevilla’s encyclopedic Etymologies, the medieval medical textbook Ars medicinae (“Art of Medicine”), and Cosmas of Prague’s Chronica Boemorum (“Chronicle of the Bohemians”), an important source for Bohemian history. The codex once also contained the Rule of St. Benedict, but those pages were removed. There are also magic spells, summaries of alphabets, a calendar, a confession of sins, a letter, an obituary section, and various other notes and jottings. Almost the entire text is in Carolingian minuscule script.
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