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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 ...
Some just use purple parchment for sections of the work; the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Stockholm Codex Aureus alternates dyed and un-dyed pages. It was at one point supposedly restricted for the use of Roman or Byzantine emperors, although in a letter of Saint Jerome of 384, he "writes scornfully of the wealthy Christian women whose books are ...
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.
An illuminated manuscript of the Gospels commissioned by Charlemagne and his wife Hildegard in 781-783. It features portraits of the Evangelists, Christ in Majesty, and the Fountain of Life, reflecting the Carolingian Renaissance style and the imperial ideology.
Minuscule 565 (Gregory-Aland) The Greek text of the codex has been considered a representative of the so-called Caesarean text-type.The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Purple Parchment; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; ...
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 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.