Rossano Gospels
The
Rossano Gospels (Cathedral of Rossano, Calabria, Italy, Archepiscopal Treasury) is a 6th century Byzantine
Gospel Book. It is probably the oldest surviving illustrated
New Testament manuscript. The now incomplete manuscript
codex has the text of Matthew and the majority of Mark. A second volume is apparently missing. Like the
Vienna Genesis, the Rossano Gospels are written in silver ink on purple dyed parchment. The large (300 mm by 250 mm) book has text written in a 215 mm square block with two columns of twenty lines each. There is a prefatory cycle of illustrations which are also on purple dyed parchment.
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Christ before Pilate.