enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Purple parchment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_parchment

    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 ...

  3. Vienna Coronation Gospels - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Coronation_Gospels

    The Vienna Coronation Gospels, also known simply as the Coronation Gospels (German: Krönungsevangeliar), is a late 8th century illuminated gospel book produced at the court of Charlemagne in Aachen. [1] It was used by the future emperor at his coronation on Christmas Day 800, when he placed three fingers of his right hand on the first page of ...

  4. Rossano Gospels - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossano_Gospels

    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 ...

  5. Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Petropolitanus_Purpureus

    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 ...

  6. Type B Cipher Machine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_B_Cipher_Machine

    Analog of the Japanese Type B Cipher Machine (codenamed Purple) built by the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service Purple analog in use. In the history of cryptography, the "System 97 Typewriter for European Characters" (九七式欧文印字機 kyūnana-shiki ōbun injiki) or "Type B Cipher Machine", codenamed Purple by the United States, was an encryption machine used by the Japanese Foreign ...

  7. St. Riquier Gospels - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Riquier_Gospels

    It is written on Purple parchment in golden letters. The Gospels and Altar card sections are written in Uncial script (fol. 1–188). The Eusebian Canons are written in Carolingian minuscule (fol. 189–198). The book is illuminated in the Carolingian Style with large decorated initials throughout the text.

  8. Codex Palatinus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Palatinus

    The Codex Palatinus, designated by e or 2 (in Beuron system), is a 5th-century Latin Gospel Book. The text, written on purple dyed vellum in gold and silver ink (as are codices a b f i j), is a version of the old Latin. Most of the manuscript was in the Austrian National Library at Vienna (Cod. 1185) until 1919, when it was transferred to ...

  9. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri

    After segmenting, textualizing, and flattening the scroll to obtain 2D text fragments, the last step is a merge step meant to reconcile each individual segment to visualize the unwrapped parchment as a whole. This involves two parts: texture merging and mesh merging. Texture merging aligns the textures from each segment to create a composite.