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  2. Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Purple parchment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Rossano Gospels - Wikipedia

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    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 Argenteus - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Argenteus (Latin for "Silver Book/Codex") is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript, originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language. Traditionally ascribed to the Arian bishop Wulfila, it is now established that the Gothic translation was performed by several scholars, possibly ...

  6. Codex - Wikipedia

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    Codex. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈkoʊdɪsiːz /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term "codex" is now reserved for older manuscript books, which mostly used sheets of vellum ...

  7. Psalter of St Germain - Wikipedia

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    The text of the manuscript contains the Psalms in the version called Vetus Latina, which is older than the Vulgate of Saint Jerome. It is written on 291 folios on parchment entirely tinted with purple. The writing is made of large uncials, well spaced and regular. This writing is similar to Italian manuscripts from the same period.

  8. Illuminated manuscript - Wikipedia

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    An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws ...

  9. Early Quranic manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The upper text conforms to the standard 'Uthmanic Quran, whereas the lower text contains many variants to the standard text. An edition of the lower text was published in 2012. [27] A radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment containing the lower text to before 671 AD with 99% probability. [28]