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 | | of the chrysographic art in Carolingian times, (37) and the Bible of Theodulphus, the Visigoth, of the ninth century, bears as striking a resemblence to the Codex Argenteus, for it, too, has gold and silver letters on purple vellum, and the exquisite regularity of the script is the same. |
| | But the Codex Argenteus was not found in Italy; of the learned Ostrogoth activity we know absolutely nothing, while Ulfilas was a Visigoth; we know positively that Gothic was understood in southern France in Carolingian times, and the Gothic calligraphy bears far more striking resemblances to that of the school of Tours. |
| | It can easily be shown that at least the parts of the Skeireins contained in the Vatican Codex 5750 were erased by a Visigoth to make place for a Latin text in the ninth century, (61) that, consequently, these parts of the Skeireins are not necessarily older than of the ninth century. |
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