【書名】One year in Sweden; including a visit to the isle of Gotlandえっと、パンと水が禁止されてレンガで閉じ込められている点は他の資料と一緒ですね。聖人も駄目だから、契約してた悪魔（Old NICK）に頼んでるのも同じ。ガチョウの羽ペンを使って書いてるんですね。
【著者】Horace Marryat 393頁
Ebba Brahe - well worn from constant carrying in the pocket - you turn to a ponderous tome, three feet in ength, known by the ill-omened name of the "Devil's Bible," - carried off by Konigsmark from a convent in Prague.
On the title-page is preserved a Sclave alphabet, and by its side is inscribed "Abbas Dyonisius, 1360." Between the Old and New Testaments is found, in characters of a far earlier date, a treatise on all the sciences, with columns of unknown matter, supposed to be incantations - things unholy; and last, not least, a picture of the devil.
Tradition tells how a monkish sinner, condemned to bread, water, and bricking up, sought so clamorously for mercy, his judges, to keep him quiet, cried, "Copy out the Bible in a clear text-hand before tomorrow's dawn, from Genesis to Kevelations, and you shall find grace."
The culprit in despair invoked the saints to aid him; then, finding it "no go," he called on the Devil, with whom he made a compact. Old Nick sat to his work; scratch, scratch went the goosequill. "Don't make such nourishes; you'll never finish!" implored the monk, in a cold perspiration; " do pray get on, the night wanes fast." But the Evil One laughed, drawing a palace on a red ground. " See, the ruddy sky foretells the coming day! quick, quick !" Scratch, scratch goes the pen.
The Epistles - oh, how long they seemed - are now at length finished. The last chapter is begun. Gradually a light spreads o'er the horizon. Slowly the sun rises, and, as the quill ceases, darts one fiery ray into the dark cell, leaving the portrait of the Evil One in bright red on the last page of the Bible. Here you may see it - the earliest instance of photography known in the whole world.
他の資料と異なっている最後の部分だけ訳出すると、
「ゆっくりと太陽が昇り、書き終わって羽ペンが止まると、灼熱の光線が暗い小部屋に差し込んでくる。聖書の最後の頁に明るい赤で邪悪な像を残したままで。
ここに皆さんはそれを見れるかもしれない。全世界で知られている初めての写真の事例を。」
悪魔の図像をここでは写真としているのが、とってもユニークですね！ この文献以外は、あまり内容的に目新しいものがないので単なる引用だけにしておきます。
【書名】TRAVELS IN NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, HANOVER, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, &c.
【著者】William Rae Wilson 222頁
In the left wing of the palace, which fronts the quay,
there is a large hall on the ground floor, containing a
number of colossal statues on pedestals, and antiquities
brought from Italy, some of which are from Herculaneum.
This room is 140 feet long, and 38 feet broad. At the upper
end stands a bust of Gustavus I., and at the lower that of
Charles XVI.; and in a room above are some pictures.
The public library occupies the whole of this wing, and
over the entry is the following inscription:-
BIBLIOTHECAM REGIAM PUBLICAM
A. GUSTAVO I. INSTITUTAM
AB AUG. EJUS SUCCESSORIBUS AMPLIATAM
GUSTAVUS IV. ADOLPHUS
CAROLO PATRUO TUTAMEN GERENTE
MAXIME DITAVIT ET HIC DISPONIJUSSIT.
MDCCXCVI.
This contains 60,000 volumes, besides manuscripts, and is daily open to the public from ten to one o'clock. I shall
mention a few of the books which are considered most interesting.
One of these, which contains dissertations on Jewish antiquities, is laid by itself, and considered to be a
great curiosity. When shut it appears like a small portmanteau from its size, and is exacdy one yard in length.
It is bound in sheepskin, and had been captured, with other valuables, at Prague, in 1648. It contains 640 pages,
is said to have been written by a monk, and upwards of 600 years old. This is by some named the Giant's Book, most likely alluding to its extraordinary size; but by others it is called the Devil's Bible, from a representation of the enemy of mankind at the conclusion of it.
There is also a Latin Bible, which had at one time belonged to the revered Luther, with notes and commentaries in
his own handwriting. It may be added, that the first book printed in Sweden was by a German, in 1483.
A fire once broke out near the palace, which destroyed great part of this library. The books which fell a prey to it are estimated at 24,672 printed volumes, and 1,386 manuscripts.
Charles XII. repaired the greater part of this loss by liberal donations: among others, he presented the whole
of the books he had taken from Prague in the year 1710.
Gustavus III. also constituted a fund of 150 rix-dollars for the use of the library. The present amounts to 1,000 rix-
dollars, but it has been proposed by the Diet to increase this sum.
【書名】Encyclopfdia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World関連ブログ
【著者】Cora Linn Daniels
In Stockholm is a Bible so huge that no man can lift it. Each leaf is on an ass's hide, and the whole is bound i wood. It is called the devil's Bible, and has the following legend: A monk had been suspected of the practice of black magic and was condemned to death for it. He begged so piteously for his life that the judge told him if he could produce such a Bible in a single night, he would be pardoned. The monk appealed to the devil, his protector, and this great volume was made in the required time, but to it were also added several other books of Christian lore, in scoren of the judge's doubts of the devil's power.
「悪魔のバイブル」、350年ぶりにチェコに里帰り
悪魔のバイブル（Codex Gigas）に関するメモ
