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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Godescalc Evangelistary - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Blue Quran - Wikipedia

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    Blue Quran. Leaf from the Blue Quran showing Sura 30: 28–32, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Blue Quran (Arabic: الْمُصْحَف الْأَزْرَق, romanized: al- Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq) is an early Quranic manuscript written in Kufic script. [1] The dating, location of origin, and patron of the Blue Quran are unknown and ...

  7. Book of Kells - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Kells (Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, [1] containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.

  8. Minuscule 1143 - Wikipedia

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    Minuscule 1143 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1035 ( von Soden ), [1] also known as the Beratinus 2 ( Albanian: Kodiku i Beratit nr. 2 ), or Codex Aureus Anthimi (The Golden Book of Anthimos). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on purple parchment, dated paleographically to the 9th century. [2]

  9. Category:Purple parchment - Wikipedia

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    Category:Purple parchment. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Purple parchments. The main article for this category is Purple parchment. "The most well known of these manuscripts of the New Testament are probably. Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (N), Codex Sinopensis (O), Codex Rossanensis (Σ), and. Codex Beratinus (Φ),