Maria Luisa Riccardi (L) restorer of Codex and Maria Letizia Sebastiani (R) of ICRCPAL Director (Central Institute for the restoration and preservation of archive and library assets) during the press conference for the return of the Purpureus Codex, returned after Rossano restoration lasted 4 years. The Mayor of Rossano Stefano Mascaro (L), Vittorio Sgarbi famous Art Critic (c) and the bishop Giuseppe Satriano (R). 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
Maria Luisa Riccardi (L) restorer of Codex and Maria Letizia Sebastiani (R) of ICRCPAL Director (Central Institute for the restoration and preservation of archive and library assets) during the press conference for the return of the Purpureus Codex, returned after Rossano restoration lasted 4 years. The Mayor of Rossano Stefano Mascaro (L), Vittorio Sgarbi famous Art Critic (c) and the bishop Giuseppe Satriano (R). 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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