A moment of the press conference for the return of the Purpureus Codex. In October 2015 it was recognized as a World Heritage Site by Unesco and inserted between the 47 new documents of the "Memory of the World Register”. The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis is a greek uncial manuscript of the sixth century, containing a Gospel texts with the apostles Matthew and Mark. Should the adjective "Purpureus" to the fact that its pages are reddish (in Latin purpureus) and contains a series of thumbnails, making it one of the oldest illuminated manuscripts of the New Testament preserved. (Photo by Alfonso D
A moment of the press conference for the return of the Purpureus Codex. In October 2015 it was recognized as a World Heritage Site by Unesco and inserted between the 47 new documents of the "Memory of the World Register”. The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis is a greek uncial manuscript of the sixth century, containing a Gospel texts with the apostles Matthew and Mark. Should the adjective "Purpureus" to the fact that its pages are reddish (in Latin purpureus) and contains a series of thumbnails, making it one of the oldest illuminated manuscripts of the New Testament preserved. (Photo by Alfonso Di Vincenzo/Pacific Press)
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