Codex Argenteus | Gothic manuscript | Britannica (original) (raw)
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exhibition at Uppsala University
In Uppsala University …and contains the illuminated manuscript Codex Argenteus, which is the only extant manuscript of Bishop Ulfilas’s 4th-century translation of the Gospels into the Gothic language. The main university building (1887) has a large art collection. Read More
preservation of Gothic alphabet
In Gothic alphabet …important of these is the Codex Argenteus, which is written in gold and silver on purple-red parchment. These written materials in Gothic not only preserve the Gothic alphabet but are also the only record of the Gothic language, which is now extinct. Read More
record of Germanic language
In East Germanic languages: History The best-known manuscript is the Codex Argenteus, written in silver and gold letters on purple parchment and containing (in 188 leaves remaining from an original 330 or 336) portions of the four Gospels. Closely related to these biblical manuscripts are eight leaves containing fragments of a commentary (called the _Skeireins_… Read More
translation of Bible
In biblical literature: German versions …are preserved mainly in the Codex Argenteus (c. 525) and Codex Gissensis. The translation, essentially based on a Byzantine text, is exceedingly literal and not homogeneous. It is difficult to determine the degree of contamination that the original Gospels translation of Ulfilas had undergone by the time it appeared in… Read More
