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TM 61836 / LDAB 2990 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/61836

also known as Codex Rossanensis; Gregory-Aland Σ; Gregory-Aland Sigma; Gregory-Aland 042; 042; Rossanensis; Rossano Gospels

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Metadata

Date: 6th century AD: AD 500 - 599

Provenance: Syria ? - Syria (SyriaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - SyriaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]
or Constantinopolis (Istanbul) (478) (?) (cf. Hixson, Scribal habits in sixth century Greek purple codices, 2019, p. 30-36)

Language/script: Greek, drawing (paleography: biblical majuscule and upright pointed majuscule upright)

Material: parchment (purpureus)

Completely preserved

Book form: codex purpureus (188 fol.); columns per page: 2; number of lines per page: 20

Authors / works: Testamentum novum, Matthaeus (Greek), Evangelium secundum Matthaeum: This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). with commentary (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Marcus (Greek), Evangelium secundum Marcum: 1-16This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). incipit, with commentary) (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Septuaginta), Opus incertum: short extracts from several books as captions with the miniatures (quoted)
Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus: fragment (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature + science + art — prose, bible, gospel + paintings (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: illustrated with paintings; silver and gold ink

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, NT.VMRNew Testament Virtual Manuscript Room => 326 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, other

Publications

Cavallo / Gribomont / Loerke, Codex purpureus Rossanensis (Cavallo, Guglielmo / Gribomont, Jean / Loerke, William C. - 1987; facsimile edition)
&von Gebhardt, Die Evangelien des Matthäus und des Markus aus dem Codex purpureus Rossanensis herausgegeben (Texte und Untersuchungen 14) (von Gebhardt, O. - 1883) [default]

∙Wallraff, Die Kanontafeln des Euseb von Kaisareia (Manuscripta Biblica. Paratextus Biblici 1) p. 125-127 (Wallraff, Martin - 2021)

∙Journal of Theological Studies N.S. 67 (2016), p. 507-541 (Hixson, Elijah - 2016; LXX quotes)

∙Cavallo / Fairtrop-Porta, Codex purpureus Rossanensis (Cavallo, Guglielmo / Fairtrop-Porta, Anne-Christine - 1992)

∙von Harnack, Evangeliorum codex Graecus purpureus Rossanensis (von Gebhardt, O. / Harnack, Adolf - 1880)

Photo: Haseloff, Codex purpureus Rossanensis. Die Miniaturen, Berlin 1898 (facsimile edition); W.H.P. Hatch, The principal uncial manuscripts of the New Testament, Chicago 1939, pl. 27; C.Santoro, Il codice purpureo di Rossano, 1974 (15 colour plates with miniatures); G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl. 90; G. Cavallo - H.Maehler, Greek Bookhands, pl. 40; P. Sevrugian, Der Rossano-Kodex und die Sinope-Fragmente, Worms 1990, 24 plates; K. Weitzmann, Late antique and early christian book illumination, London 1977, pl. 29-33; P. Canart – S. Lucà, Codici greci dell’Italia meridionale, Grottaferrata 2000, pl. p. 37-38; E. Hixson, Scribal habits in xixth-century codices, 2019, p. 24; Sebastiani / Cavalieri, Codex purpureus Rossanensis, passim; Wallraff, Die Kanontafeln des Euseb von Kaisareia, pl. 26-27

Content studies: G. Cavallo - J. Gribomont - W.C. Loerke, Codex purpureus Rossanensis, commentarium, Rome-Graz 1987

Script & book studies: P. Sevrugian, Der Rossano-Kodex und die Sinope-Fragmente, Worms 1990; M. Maniaci - P. Orsini, Scrineum Rivista15 (2018), p. 4-61); E. Hixson, Scribal habits in sixth-century codices (New Test. tools, studies and documents 61), 2019, pp.30-36, 206-249; M.L. Sebastiani - P; Cavalieri, Codex purpureus Rossanensis. Un codice e i suo segreti 2020

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