Codex purpureus Rossanensis
| Uncial 042 | |
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| Christ before Pilate | |
| Surname | Codex Purpureus Rossanensis |
| character | Σ |
| text | Matthew , Mark |
| language | Greek |
| date | 550 |
| Found | 1879, Rossano |
| Storage location | Diocesan Museum of Rossano |
| size | 188 sheets; 31 × 26 cm; 20 lines; 2 columns |
| Type | Byzantine text type |
| category | V |
| note | close to Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus N (022) |
The Codex purpureus Rossanensis ( Purple Codex of Rossano , Gregory-Aland No. 042 or Σ) is an important illustrated Greek gospel book .
Name and content
The Gospels are kept in the Diocesan Museum of the Calabrian city of Rossano . It owes its name to the fact that the 188 of the original 400 parchment leaves that have been preserved are colored purple .
The richly illustrated text contains the full Gospel of Matthew , part of the Gospel of Mark and a letter from Eusebius of Caesarea with a gap in Mark 16, 14-20.
history
The book was probably written in Syria in the 6th century and brought to Calabria by monks fleeing the Arabs in the 7th century. Oscar von Gebhardt and Adolf Harnack discovered the codex in 1879 and published a description.
In 2015 the Code was declared a World Document Heritage by UNESCO .
Picture gallery
Current presentation in the Diocesan Museum of Rossano
Christ before Pilate
Mark the Evangelist
The parable of the wise and foolish virgins
The last supper
The Good Samaritan
expenditure
In 1985 a facsimile edition was published by the Academic Printing and Publishing Company in Graz.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Oscar von Gebhardt : The Gospels of Matthaeus and Marcus from the Codex purpureus Rossanensis. In: Texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1883 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- William C. Loerke: The Miniatures of the Trial in the Rossano Gospels. In: Art Bulletin. 43, 1961, pp. 171-195.
- Petra Sevrugian: The Rossano Codex and the Sinope Fragments. Miniatures and theology (= manuscripts for art history in the Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft. 35th Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1990, ISBN 3-88462-934-4 )
Web links
- Detailed description on www.silagreca.de
- Images on the page of the Archbishop's Museum in Rossano
- Excellent presentation of some images with commentary in Italian on www.calabria.org.uk
- codicological description in Italian
- LDAB
Individual evidence
- ^ Caspar René Gregory , text criticism of the New Testament , Leipzig 1900, Volume 1, pp. 92–93; Kurt and Barbara Aland: The Text of the New Testaments. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 , p. 123.
- ↑ The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis. UNESCO Memory of the World, accessed August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Information from ADEVA
Bibliotheca Corviniana (2005) | Library of the Novello Malatesta (2005) | Historical Archives of the Diocese of Lucca (2011) | Newsreels and photos of the Istituto Luce (2013) | Barbanera Almanac Collection (2015) | Codex purpureus Rossanensis (2015) | Work by Brother Bernardino de Sahagún (2015) | Antonio Carlos Gomes, composer between two worlds (2017)