Isaac Vossius
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Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss was a Dutch philologist scholar and manuscript collector.
Variarum observationum liber, 1685
De motu marium et ventorum, 1663
Codex Argenteus
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The Codex argenteus is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language traditionally attributed to the Go
Isaac Vossius
…her to Brussels, where he took his leave of her. The impecunious queen paid her former librarian's outstanding back pay in books, among which was the Codex Argenteus. In 1664 Vossius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in London. After his brilliant, though at times controversial, career of scholarship in…
A facsimile of the Codex argenteus
Part of the Lord's Prayer, transliteration "... in himina, weihnai namo þein; qimai þiudinassus þeins, wairþai wilja þeins, swe in himina jah ana airþai; hlaif..." from De Literis & Lingva GETARUM Sive GOTHORUM, 1597, p.33.