The Uppsala University Library - Codex Argenteus Manuscript, Uppsala is one of the famous tourist attractions in the university city of Uppsala. Situated in the province of Uppland in Svealand in the south central region of Sweden, Uppsala is home to two universities. The Uppsala University Library - Codex Argenteus Manuscript, Uppsala, housed in the Uppsala University, is a prime attraction of the city.
The Uppsala University Library - Codex Argenteus Manuscript, Uppsala is the most valuable manuscript of the Uppsala University Library. Codex Argenteus is a world-famous manuscript, and is better known as the ‘Silver Bible’. In the middle of the 16th century this manuscript was found in the library of the Benedictine monastery of Werden in the Ruhr, close to Essen in Germany.
The Uppsala University Library - Codex Argenteus Manuscript, Uppsala was later owned by Emperor Rudolph II. In July 1648, the Silver Bible fell into their hands of the Swedes when the invaded Prague. The manuscript was then deposited in the library of Queen Christina in Stockholm. However, after the abdication of the Queen in the year 1654, the Codex Argenteus was acquired by the Dutch scholar Isaac Vossius, one of the librarians of the Queen. In the year 1662, Vossius sold the Uppsala University Library - Codex Argenteus Manuscript in Uppsala to Swedish Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. Gardie presented the manuscript to the University of Uppsala in the year 1669.
The Codex Argenteus Manuscript was written in silver and gold letters on purple vellum in Ravenna, Italy in about 520 AD. Fragments of the Four Gospels in the 4th century Gothic version of Bishop Ulfilas (Wulfila) are contained in the manuscript. The Silver Bible originally had 336 leaves, but at present, only 188 remain. Except for one leaf that was found in the cathedral of Speyer in Germany in the year 1970, the rest of the leaves are preserved in Uppsala.
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