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  • Dec 27, 2025
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📏 Largest book ever made (by physical size)

Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom

  • Published: 2003

  • Dimensions: ~5 × 7 feet (1.5 × 2.1 meters) when open

  • Weight: ~130 pounds (60 kg)

  • Content: Oversized photographic and cultural record of Bhutan

  • Status: Widely recognized as the largest printed book ever published

This is the answer most people mean when they ask “largest book.”


📜 Largest handwritten book (historical)

Codex Gigas (also called The Devil’s Bible)

  • Created: Early 13th century

  • Size: ~36 × 20 × 9 inches

  • Weight: ~165 pounds (75 kg)

  • Pages: 310 parchment leaves

  • Notable for: A full-page illustration of the Devil and its immense single-volume scale

It remains the largest medieval manuscript in existence.


📚 Not to confuse with “longest book”

  • The longest novel by word count is In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (~1.2 million words)



 
 
 

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