The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis in Rossano.
One of the most important manuscripts in the world (it is said to be among the six best preserved) is found in this small town in Calabria.
It was a surprise because, like probably many of those reading this, I did not know it.
It is a gospel, written in Greek, and is called purpureus because of the color of the parchment.
Found (or at least rediscovered) only at the end of the 19th century in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Rossano and is now on display in the diocesan museum of the same town.

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This is the official website: codexrossanensis.it.

To see all the photos I took in Rossano, of the town, of the Cathedral, of the Cathedral of Maria Santissima Achiropita and of the Diocesan Museum click here:

The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis is a Greek uncial manuscript from the 6th century, preserved in Rossano in the Diocesan and Codex museum and containing a Gospel book with texts from Matthew and Mark. It owes the adjective “Purpureus” to the fact that its pages are reddish (in Latin purpureus) and contains a series of miniatures that make it one of the oldest illuminated manuscripts of the New Testament preserved.
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