A silver codex in Uppsala
Codex Argenteus, the ‘Silver Codex’, is a manuscript of exceptional interest in the collection of Uppsala University, Sweden. The early sixth-century codex, produced in Ravenna, contains the Four Gospels in Gothic. The Gospels appear in the order Matthew, John, Luke, Mark. Images of the pages are available online.
Also available online is a transcription of the [...]
Golden codices
In describing Codex Gigas, the website of the National Library of Sweden refers to another impressive and important Latin codex in the Stockholm collection known as the Codex Aureus (Golden Codex) (SKB catalogue no. A 135), which contains the Four Gospels.
Codex Gigas is well known for preserving Old Latin versions of Acts and Revelation, whereas [...]
Codex Gigas
The National Library of Sweden has a remarkable online resource for study of Codex Gigas – a full set of digitised images together with extensive description and bibliography.
In the bibliography, links are included for some items accessible online. These include a standard description of the codex by B. Dudík, OSB, in his Forschungen in Schweden [...]