Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- war trophy
- Country
- Sweden
- Material used
- vellum
- Collection
- Uppsala University Library
- Location
- Uppsala University Library
- Image
- Codex argenteus - Carolina Rediviva.png
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- edition or translation of
- Bible
- publication date
- 0500-00-00
- Commons category
- Codex Argenteus
- language of work or name
- Gothic
- heritage designation
- Memory of the World International Register
- copyright status
- public domain
- described at URL
- www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/codex-argenteus-silver-bible
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Encyclopedic overview
The Codex argenteus (Latin for "Silver Book/Codex") 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 Gothic Bishop Wulfila. A part of it is on permanent display at the Carolina Rediviva building in Uppsala, Sweden, under the name "Silverbibeln" (i.e. "The Silver Bible"). Since 2011, the Codex Argenteus has been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Codex Argenteus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.