Rossano Gospels

The Codex purpureus Rossanensis, Purple Code of Rossano ( Gregory -Aland no 042 or Σ ), is a major illustrated Greek Gospel Book, which is exhibited in the Diocesan Museum of the Calabrian town of Rossano. It owes its name to the fact that the 188 received the original 400 parchment leaves are colored with purple. The richly illustrated text contains the entire Gospel of Matthew, a part of the Gospel of Mark, as well as a letter of Eusebius of Caesarea with a gap in Mark 16.14-20.

The book was probably written in the 6th century in Syria and brought on the run from the Arabs in the 7th century by monks to Calabria. Oscar von Gebhardt and Adolf Harnack discovered this Codex in 1879 and published a description.

Gallery

  • Christ before Pilate
  • Mark the Evangelist
  • The parable of the wise and foolish virgins
  • The Last Supper
  • The Good Samaritan
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