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The codex has a unified look as the nature of the writing is unchanged throughout, showing no signs of age, disease or mood on the part of the scribe. This may have led to the belief that the whole book was written in a very short time (see Legend), but scientists are starting to believe and research the theory that it took over 20 years to complete.

The length, size, and detail of the codex are of such extraordinary magnitude that legend surrounds its origin, specifically the story that it was written by one scribe in one night with help from the devil.

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The codex's bookbinding is wooden boards covered in leather, with ornate metal guards and fittings. At 92 cm (36 in) long, 50 cm (20 in) wide and 22 cm (8.7 in) thick, it is the largest known medieval manuscript.[6] Weighing 74.8 kg (165 lb), Codex Gigas is composed of 310 leaves of vellum claimed to be made from the skins of 160 donkeys, or perhaps calfskin, covering 142.6 m2 (1,535 sq ft) in total.[7] The manuscript includes illuminations in red, blue, yellow, green, and gold. Capital letters at the start of books of the bible and the chronicle are elaborately illuminated in several colours, sometimes taking up most of the page; 57 of these survive. The start of the Book of Genesis is missing. There are also 20 initials with the letters in blue, with vine decoration in red. There are also two images representing Heaven and Earth during the Creation, as blue and green circles with respectively the sun, moon, and some stars, and a planet all of sea with no landmasses. Within books, major capitals are much enlarged, taking up the height of about five to six lines of text, in red ink, and placed in the margins. Less important divisions, such as the start of verses, are slightly enlarged within the text and highlighted with yellowish ink around the letter forms.[8]

The codex has a unified look as the nature of the writing is unchanged throughout, showing no signs of age, disease, or mood on the part of the scribe.[9] This may have led to the belief that the whole book was written in a very short time (see Legend), but scientists are starting to investigate the theory that it took over 20 years to complete.[10]

The extraordinary length, size, and detail of the codex have given rise to the legend that it was written by one scribe in one night with help from the devil himself.[11][12] It initially contained 320 sheets, though twelve of these were subsequently removed.[13] It is unknown who removed the pages or for what purpose.

Several pages before this double spread are written in yellow characters on a blackened parchment and have a very gloomy character, somewhat different from the rest of the codex. The reason for the discoloration is that these vellum pages have been exposed to the light as readers over the centuries turned the pages toward the infamous illustration.

According to legend, the codex was created by Herman the Recluse in the Benedictine monastery of Podlaice near Chrudim in the Czech Republic which was destroyed in the 15th century during the Hussite Revolution, but is now marked by a maquette in the town museum of Chrast. Records in the codex end in the year 1222.[15] Shortly after it was written, it was pawned by the Benedictines to the Cistercian monks of the Sedlec Monastery, where it remained for 70 years. The Benedictine monastery in Bevnov reclaimed the bible around the end of the 13th Century.[16] From 1477 it was in the library of a monastery in Broumov, until in 1594 it was taken to Prague into the collection of Emperor Rudolf II.

The fauna of the rivers and coast of Brazil is richer in species andindividuals than that of the land. All the rivers are richly stocked,and valuable fishing grounds are to be found along the coast, especiallythat of southern Bahia and Espirito Santo where the garoupa(Serranus) is found in large numbers. Some of the small fish alongthe coast are highly esteemed for their flavour. Whales were oncenumerous between Capes St Roque and Frio, but are now rarelyseen. Of the edible river fish, the best known is the piraruc (Sudisgigas), a large fish of the Amazon which is salted and dried formarket during the low-water season. Fish is a staple food of theIndian tribes of the Amazon region, and their fishing season is duringthe period of low water. The visit of Professor Louis Agassiz to theAmazon in 1865 resulted in a list of 1143 species, but it is believedthat no less than 1800 to 2000 species are to be found in that greatriver and its tributaries.

Although the coast and river fisheries of Brazil are numerous andvaluable, cured fish is one of the staple imports, and foreign products449are to be found even along the Amazon. In the Amazon valley fishis a principal article of food, and large quantities of piraruc (Sudisgigas) are caught during the season of low water and prepared forstorage or market by drying in the sun. This and the collection ofturtle eggs for their oil, or butter, are chiefly Indian industries, andcontribute largely to the support of the native population of thatregion. Along the coast the best known fisheries are among theAbrolhos islands and in the shallow waters of Espirito Santo, wherethe garoupa, pargo and vermelho (species of Serranus) abound ingreat numbers.

The principal MS. of this Edda is the Codex Regius in the royallibrary at Copenhagen, written continuously, without regard toprose or verse, on 45 vellum leaves. This is that found by BishopBrynjulf. Another valuable fragment exists in the Arne-Magnaeancollection in the University of Copenhagen, consisting of four sheets,22 leaves in all. These are the only MSS. older than the 17th centurywhich contain a collection of the ancient mythico-heroic lays, butfragments occur in various other works, and especially in the Eddaof Snorri. It is believed to have been written between 1260 and 1280.The poetic Edda was translated into English verse by Amos Cottlein 1797; the poet Gray produced a version of the Vegtamskvia;but the first good translation of the whole was that published byBenjamin Thorpe in 1866. An excellent edition of the Icelandictext has been prepared by Th. Mbius, but the standard of theoriginal orthography will be found in the admirable edition ofSophus Bugge, Norroen Fornkvaei, published at Christiania in 1867.

In the giant armadillo (Priodon gigas) the teeth are variablein number, and generally differ on the two sides of each jaw,being usually from 20 to 25 on each side above and below, sothat as many as a hundred may be present altogether; but aslife advances the anterior teeth fall out, and all traces of theirsockets disappear. The series extends as far back as the hinderedge of the anterior root of the zygoma. They are all very small,in the anterior half of each series strongly compressed, with flatsides and a straight free edge, but posteriorly more cylindrical,with flat, truncated, free surfaces. Vertebrae: C 7, D 12, L 3,S 10, Ca 23. Head small, elongated, conical. Ears moderate,ovate. Armour with 12-13 movable bands. Tail nearly equalto the body in length, gradually tapering, closely covered withquadrangular scales, arranged in a quincunx pattern. Fore-feetwith five toes, formed on the same plan as those of Tatoua, butwith the claw of the third of still greater size, and that of theothers, especially the fifth, proportionally reduced. Hind-footshort and rounded, with five very short toes, and short, broad,flat obtuse nails. The giant armadillo is by far the largestexisting member of the family, measuring rather more than 3 ft.from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, the tail beingabout 20 in. long. It inhabits the forest of Surinam and Brazil.The powerful claws of its fore-feet enable it to dig with greatfacility; and its food consists chiefly of termites and otherinsects, although it is said to attack and uproot newly-madegraves for the purpose of devouring the flesh of the bodiescontained in them.

When a wider culture was imported from Greece it was,however, the form rather than the spirit of true Hellenic educationthat was transferred. This was, indeed, to someextent inevitable from the decadent state of GreekHellenized Roman education.education at the time, but it was accentuated by theessentially practical character of the Roman mind.The instrument of education first introduced was Greek literature,much of which was soon translated into Latin. In time theschools of the grammatici, teaching grammar and literature, weresupplemented by schools of rhetoric and philosophy, though thephilosophy taught in them was itself little more than rhetoricaldeclamation. These furnished the means of higher culture forthose youths who did not study at Alexandria or Athens, andwere also preparatory to studies at those universities. Under theEmpire the rhetorical schools were gradually organized into astate system, the general principles of administration being laiddown by imperial decree, and even such details as the appointmentand rate of payment of the professors, at first left to themunicipalities, being in time assumed by the central government.There is no evidence of any state regulation or support of thelower schools. This widening of culture affected both boys andgirls, the domestic education of the latter being supplementedby a study of literature. But it is the higher training inrhetoric which is especially characteristic of Hellenized Romaneducation.

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