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The Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus (" Purple Codex of Saint Petersburg "), designated by N or 022 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε19 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek New Testament codex containing the four Gospels written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing ...
Purple parchment. Purple parchment or purple vellum refers to parchment dyed purple; codex purpureus refers to manuscripts written entirely or mostly on such parchment. The lettering may be in gold or silver. Later [when?] the practice was revived for some especially grand illuminated manuscripts produced for the emperors in Carolingian art and ...
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels, on 420 purple parchment leaves (24 by 19 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page, in gold. It is written in early minuscule, but some parts of the codex in semi-uncial, and titles in uncial letters. The codex contains simple miniatures, mainly geometrical ...
Rossano Gospel's paper are vellum parchment, made from the skin of a calf; the thinner parchment is, the higher its value. The large (300 mm by 250 mm) book has text written in a 215 mm square block with two columns of twenty lines each. The prefatory cycle of illustrations is also on purple dyed parchment. Rossano Codex is fully gilded on ...
The Codex Sarzanensis, or Codex Saretianus, designated by j or 22 (in Beuron system), is a 5th or 6th century Latin Gospel Book. The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver ink (as are codices a b e f i ), is a version of the old Latin. Dated by paleographists to the beginning of the 6th century, the manuscript is formed by 72 sheep ...
Minuscule 565 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε 93 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), [1] also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on purple parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been ...
The codex contains 19 lessons from the Gospels (Evangelistarium), on 182 purple parchment leaves (16.2 cm by 14.5 cm). The lessons of the codex were red from πασχα to εις μετανοιαν. The text is written in one column per page, in 9 lines per page, 7-11 letters per line, in Greek uncial letters, in gold and silver ink. The ...
The Godescalc Evangelistary, Godescalc Sacramentary, Godescalc Gospels, or Godescalc Gospel Lectionary (Paris, BNF. acquisitions nouvelles lat.1203) is an illuminated manuscript in Latin made by the Frankish scribe Godescalc and today kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was commissioned by the Carolingian king Charlemagne and his ...