The Codex Gigas

Most scholars agree that it was most likely Soberslauch who tore out the pages containing the rules of the Benedictine Order. The monastery's reputation wasn't enhanced by the fact that a few years later they ran into some financial troubles and sold the Codex Gigas. When Herman died a few months after the sale he set to work on producing a new version of the Codex from memory. They say his anger consumed him and he poured that anger into his own version of theCodex Gigas. It seems SobersLauch's new Codex was the foundation upon which a new order was built and it was named after Sobers lauch's text, the cinephus