Codex Argenteus
The Silver Bible, a sixth-century manuscript of Wulfila's Gothic Bible translation written in silver and gold ink on purple-dyed vellum, probably copied in northern Italy for the Ostrogothic court. Rediscovered at the monastery of Werden, it came to Sweden during the Thirty Years' War and is now kept at Uppsala University Library. It is the most substantial surviving text in the Gothic language. The manuscript is written in silver uncial script on leaves stained with purple dye, a colour reserved for imperial books, and only the gospel canon tables and a few headings are picked out in gold. Of