A very old completely unusual reddish-purple colored Torah fragmentFine Judaica

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A very old completely unusual reddish-purple colored Torah fragmentFine Judaica:
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A very old, and completely unusual reddish-purple colored Torah fragment!
This is one of the most interesting fragments I ever saw in my life.
Why?
Torah fragments are common, and also often available in .I saw many times Torah fragments dated by the seller 500 and more Years old.
When I take a look over, I saw there are 100 or 150 Years old, and not older at all.One of the reasons is, it is almost impossible to date a Torah scroll excactly, except
if there are not older than 200 Years.
The script dosen\'t chance very much over the Centuries.However, this one here is something very special.
I\'m hesitating to date the fragment, but the colour is quite unusual.This reddish - purple color used only with a few Royal manuscripts in the history.Examples are:
Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus N (022)
Sinope Gospels O (023) (illuminated)
Rossano Gospels Σ (042) (illuminated)
Codex Beratinus Φ (043) (illuminated)
Two other purple New Testament Greek manuscripts are minuscules:
Minuscule 565 known as the Empress Theodora\'s Codex
Minuscule 1143 known as Beratinus 2
There is a 9th-century lectionary:
Codex Neapolitanus, former Codex Vindobonensis 2
Another six New Testament purple manuscripts are in Latin (a, b, e, f, i, j). Besides some scattered fragments,
they are held mainly in: Brescia, Naples, Sarezzano, Trent and Vienna. Three of these use Vetus Latina texts.
Codex Vercellensis
Codex Veronensis
Codex Palatinus
Codex Brixianus
Codex Purpureus Sarzanensis
Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 1235
There is also one Gothic purple codex — Codex Argenteus (illuminated)
There is a purple manuscript of part of the Septuagint:
Vienna Genesis (illuminated)
(source: Wikipedia)Most of them produced in the 8th-9th. Century for Emperors in Carolingian art and Ottonian art, in Anglo-Saxon England and elsewhere.However, it is the first time I saw such a colour in a manuscript, and and my face looks a bit
like a cow staying on a new barn door!Here now the details:Fragment of an old Torah scroll (folded), contains the beginning of Genesis: \"Bereshisz boro.....\"
Measurement: ca. 39 x 30 cm
Script faded in places.Age: no excact idea, A carbon 14 age test is highly recommended.The missing tagin in the script is very interesting.
In the 9th. Century they were required. Later Maimonides had no problems with missing tagins. The lower part of the \"Lamed\" is missing, which shows
actually a production before 1800!Origin: no idea, looks to me like from Europe.(not spanish)Thats all I can say!Good luck for this sale! This sale will end after 10 days on sunday! Good luck!!! I have listed two another fragments from that manuscript!!!

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I send the mail with a trackable Number only! sale starts on 0.99 USD ending on sunday. NO information about this parchment:Purple parchment, Purple vellum or Codex Purpureus refers to manuscripts written on parchment (actually always vellum, the higher quality version) dyed purple.
This was at one point supposedly restricted for the use of Roman or Byzantine Emperors, although in a letter of Saint Jerome of 384, he \"writes scornfully
of the wealthy Christian women whose books are written in gold on purple vellum, and clothed with gems...\".[1] The lettering may be in gold or silver. Later
the practice was revived for some especially grand illuminated manuscripts produced for the Emperors in Carolingian art and Ottonian art, in Anglo-Saxon
England and elsewhere. Some just use purple parchment for sections of the work; the 8th century Anglo-Saxon Stockholm Codex Aureus alternates dyed and
un-dyed pages.
Examples
The Purple Uncials or the Purple Codices is a well known group of these manuscripts, all 6th century New Testament Greek manuscripts:
Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus N (022)
Sinope Gospels O (023) (illuminated)
Rossano Gospels Σ (042) (illuminated)
Codex Beratinus Φ (043) (illuminated)
Uncial 080Two other purple New Testament Greek manuscripts are minuscules:
Minuscule 565 known as the Empress Theodora\'s Codex
Minuscule 1143 known as Beratinus 2There is a 9th-century lectionary:
Codex Neapolitanus, former Codex Vindobonensis 2Another six New Testament purple manuscripts are in Latin (a, b, e, f, i, j). Besides some scattered fragments, they are held mainly in: Brescia, Naples,
Sarezzano, Trent and Vienna. Three of these use Vetus Latina texts. Codex Vercellensis
Codex Veronensis
Codex Palatinus
Codex Brixianus
Codex Purpureus Sarzanensis
Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 1235There is also one Gothic purple codex — Codex Argenteus (illuminated)There is a purple manuscript of part of the Septuagint:
Vienna Genesis (illuminated)Other illuminated manuscripts include the Godescalc Evangelistary of 781-3, the Vienna Coronation Gospels (early 9th century) and a few pages of the 9th
century La Cava Bible from the Kingdom of Asturias. Anglo-Saxon examples include a lost 7th century gospels commissioned by Saint Wilfrid.
Source: Wikipedia