The Bible was created in the late 12th and early 13th century in the Benedictine Monastery in Podlazice near Chrudim, east Bohemia.
It later got to the monasteries in Brevnov, now part of Prague, and Broumov, east Bohemia.
The Swedish soldiers brought the bible from the collections of then Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II to their Queen Kristina as war loot.
Since then the manuscript has left Sweden only twice. In 1970 it was lent to the United States, eight years ago to Berlin.
The book is written in Latin and it contains 14 texts of different nature.
The opening Old Testament is followed by the Penintential, a manual for priests that lists the sins and ways of penance.
It is here that the most remarkable place in the book is to be found - a colour picture of a devil almost half a metre high.
The bible also contains a transcript of the Czech Cosmas Chronicle, which Cosmas wrote in Latin probably in the early 12th century.
The transcript is one of the oldest and best ones.
The legend has it that a monk repenting of his heavy sin wrote the bible with the help of a devil within one sole night. He allegedly drew the devil's picture in the book out of gratitude.
In spite of this legend, the Inquisition has never damned the codex. On the contrary, it has attracted the interest of scholars as well as art and curiosities devotees.
The loan of the Devil's Bible was requested by then Czech PM Jiri Paroubek (Social Democrats) during his visit to Sweden in the autumn of 2005.
He said then that the Czech state does not challenge the ownership of the Swedish state of the book taken away from the Czech Lands in 1648.
"We only want to borrow it, it is not of course restitution of property," Paroubek said then..."
