Purple parchment
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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 the
Page from the Rossano Gospels
A page of the 6th-century Codex Argenteus, in silver and gold ink on purple
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
Purple parchment
…Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 1235 There is also one Gothic purple codex – the Codex Argenteus (illuminated). There is a purple manuscript of part of the Septuagint…
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.