Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus

With masterful miniatures and biting caricatures against iconoclasm: a powerful visual testimony to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy in the 9th century that innovatively connects text and image

The word of God in silver ink and enchanting miniatures on purple parchment: one of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts and a masterpiece of early Byzantine book illumination

A small codex with the Epistles of Paul dating back to as early as the 9th century: appended with an Old Irish poem by a pilgrim disappointed in the pilgrimage to Rome

One of the most splendidly illuminated Byzantine manuscripts still preserved today: golden ornaments, impressive full-page miniatures and charming narrative scenes in a unique gospel book

Combines several superlatives: The oldest and most authentic copy of the Old Testament in Greek, the oldest complete copy of the New Testament and one of the oldest and most complete Bible manuscripts in existence

A masterpiece of Byzantine book illumination with gold-decorated marginal illuminations on almost every double page: one of only seven surviving “marginal psalters” with more than 300 fascinating miniatures as pictorial commentaries on the biblical psalms