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If you are a researcher or occult scholar looking for more than just the pictures, the "best" version for you includes transcribed text. The National Library of Sweden has also partnered with Stanford University to create a transcribed version of the Vulgate text.

, digital access is the only way for most people to explore it. Official High-Resolution Archive: National Library of Sweden

The monastery kept the book. It brought them fame, but it also brought ruin. Fires broke out. Wars came. The book seemed to carry a curse, destroying those who possessed it, passing from the Benedictines to the Cistercians, and finally to the Emperor Rudolf II, who was obsessed with the occult.

Measures 36 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds.