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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...
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    Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing...
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    parchment that was colored Tyrian purple. Empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber, and the emperors born there were known as "born to the purple,"...
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  • St. Riquier Gospels (category Purple parchment)
    The St. Riquier Gospels is an illuminated Gospel Book made during the Carolingian Renaissance. It was given to Angilbert, abbot of the monastery of Saint...
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    Codex Argenteus (category Purple parchment)
    14:4-72; 15:1-47; 16:1-12 (+ 16:13-20). Gothic Bible Gothic language Purple parchment Codex Carolinus Ratkus, Artūras (2018). "Greek ἀρχιερεύς in Gothic...
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    Vienna Coronation Gospels (category Purple parchment)
    800. The Coronation Evangeliar manuscript consists of 236 crimson-dyed parchment pages with gold and silver ink text. The pages measure 32.4 cm × 24.9 cm...
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    Codex Vercellensis (category Purple parchment)
    The title Codex Vercellensis Evangeliorum refers to two manuscript codices preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli, in the Piedmont Region, Italy...
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    Vienna Genesis (category Purple parchment)
    conservation of a late antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment" states "The parchment of Late Antique manuscripts, which date from the 4th –7th...
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    Sinope Gospels (category Purple parchment)
    as one of the earliest examples of its use in paintings. The purple colour of the parchment was identified as Orchil, a dye extracted from lichens, similar...
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    Rossano Gospels (category Purple parchment)
    is worthy of the rare purple dye. Rossano Gospel's paper are vellum parchment, made from the skin of a calf; the thinner parchment is, the higher its value...
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    Stockholm Codex Aureus (category Purple parchment)
    differing colours of ink are arranged to form geometric patterns. Purple parchment was, in the Roman and Byzantine Empires, reserved for Imperial manuscripts...
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    Godescalc Evangelistary (category Purple parchment)
    of purple parchment. Godescalc described his book in a dedication poem at the end of the Evangelistary: Golden words are painted [here] on purple pages...
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    who so desire have old books, or books written in gold and silver on purple parchment, or burdens {rather than books} written in uncial letters, as they...
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    the most famous works of Islamic calligraphy. This work emulated the purple parchment that was used in the Byzantine illuminated manuscripts and was an effort...
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    was suggested by Sergey Kim in 2022. Bible translations into Geʽez Purple parchment The Quedlinburg Itala fragment is dated to the 420s to 430s. Kim, Sergey...
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    Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus (category Purple parchment)
    is a Greek New Testament codex containing the four Gospels written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has...
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  • Minuscule 1152 (category Purple parchment)
    (Macedonia), on May 4, 1133. List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000) Purple parchment Textual criticism Caspar René Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes...
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    Codex Veronensis (category Purple parchment)
    modern book), containing the Latin text of the four Gospels written on purple parchment, with 1 column and 18 lines per page.: 212  It has several missing...
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    text written in gold on purple parchment and scenes of months and zodiac signs (1168–1189) Guthlac Roll, strip of parchment containing 18 roundels depicting...
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    Codex Beratinus (category Purple parchment)
    (one). Bible portal List of New Testament uncials Textual criticism Purple parchment Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament:...
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    pg 4 Markus 1997, p. 15. Gardner 1911. "A Papyrus Puzzle and Some Purple Parchment". British Museum. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014. Ambrosini...
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    Psalter of St Germain (category Purple parchment)
    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...
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    Natural dye (section Purples)
    for imperial manuscripts on purple parchment, often with text in silver or gold, and porphyrogenitos or "born in the purple" was a term for Byzantine offspring...
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  • Codex Palatinus (category Purple parchment)
    and Jülicher. Bible portal List of New Testament Latin manuscripts Purple parchment Description of the manuscript Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions...
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  • Uncial 080 (category Purple parchment)
    small part of the Gospel of Mark 9:14-18.20-22; 10:23-24.29, on two purple parchment leaves. Size of the leaves is unknown because of their fragmentary...
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    Codex Brixianus (category Purple parchment)
    579, al. This matches the Gothic reading "þarei was." Bible portal Purple parchment List of New Testament Latin manuscripts Scrivener, Frederick Henry...
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  • Codex Purpureus Sarzanensis (category Purple parchment)
    appointment for a small donation. List of New Testament Latin manuscripts Purple parchment "Codex Purpureus Sarzanensis in the Diocese of Tortona". Roman Catholic...
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  • Purple of Cassius is a purple pigment formed by the reaction of gold salts with tin(II) chloride. It has been used to impart glass with a red coloration...
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  • 6th century, written in uncial (majuscule) script with silver ink on purple parchment. Other leaves are held by the British Library in London, the Byzantine...
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  • Lectionary 46 (category Purple parchment)
    Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on purple parchment leaves. Palaeographically, it has been assigned to the 9th century...
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