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The conversion of the Germanic peoples to Arianism was a historical accident rather than a political decision to avoid the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. Ulfilas was trained in Constantinople during a period of Arian ascendency and sent back to his people as a missionary. He left Constantinople at about the same time that orthodox trinitarianism prevailed against Arianism, leaving the Germanic peoples in a religious minority once they entered the Roman Empire.
The "Silver Bible" was probably written for the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great at his royal seat in Ravenna. It was made as a special and impressive book written with gold and silver ink on high-quality vellum with an ornate binding. After Theodoric's death the Silver Bible is not mentioned in inventories or book lists for a thousand years.
Parts of the "Codex Argenteus" were preserved at Werden, Rhineland, Germany. In the 16th century Werden was in the Holy Roman Empire. The book, or the remaining part of it, came to Emperor Rudolph II at his imperial seat in Prague. At the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 it was taken as war booty to Stockholm, Sweden, to the Library of Queen Christina of SwedenChristina (1626-1689) or Kristina later known as Maria Christina Alexandra and sometime Count Dohna was Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654, was the daughter of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. As the heiress presumptive she succeeded her father to the thr. After her conversion to CatholicismThis article considers Catholicism in the broadest ecclesiastical sense. See Catholicism (disambiguation) for alternative meanings Catholicism has two main ecclesiastical meanings, described in Webster's Dictionary as: a) "the whole orthodox Christian chu and her abdication, the book wound up in the NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium. Later it was taken to Sweden to Uppsala UniversityUppsala University ( Swedish Uppsala universitet is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. The oldest university in Scandinavia, it was founded in 1477 on the initiative of the the Archbishop of Uppsala Jakob Ulfsson and the Swedish Regent Sten Sture, an, where it remains to this day at the university library Carolina RedivivaCarolina Rediviva is the library of Uppsala University in Sweden. The name was given in remembrance of the old building of the Academia Carolina and literally means "Carolina Revived". It is the oldest and largest university library in the country. It is.
It is unknown whether the other half of the book survived. One leaf is at SpeyerSpeyer (English formerly Spires is a city in Germany ( Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. 50000 inhabitants, located on the Rhine river. It neighbours Worms and Mainz. History Archaeological data suggests that the site of the city was originally inhabited in Germany. Great mysteries surround the wanderings of this Codex, the disappearance for a thousand years and possible fragmental remains.
Some Gothic language texts are found today in a few palimpsets and in other fragments, such as the Codex Carolinus in Wolfenbuettel, as well as codices in Milan, Turin and the Vatican.
In March 1995, parts of the "Codex Argenteus" that were on public display in Carolina Rediviva were stolen. The stolen parts were recovered one month later, in a storage box at the Stockholm Central train station.
Based on : Lars Munkhammar of Uppsala University Library
The majority of the codex consists of a large part of GenesisThis article is about Genesis the first book of the Hebrew Bible. See Genesis (disambiguation) for other usages of the word. Genesis ( Greek: , having the meanings of "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source" and "origin"; translated from Hebrew, most of the Gospels, and all of 2nd Corinthians , as well as smaller fragments of other books.