Editing Codex Argenteus (section)

===Origin===
The {{lang|la|Codex argenteus}} (literally: "Silver Book") was probably written for the [[Ostrogothic Kingdom|Ostrogothic king]] [[Theodoric the Great]], either at his royal seat in [[Ravenna]], or in the [[Po River|Po valley]] or at [[Brescia]]; it was made as a special and impressive book written with gold and silver ink on high-quality thin [[Purple parchment|vellum stained a regal purple]], with an ornate [[treasure binding]]. Under Theodoric's reign, manuscripts of the [[Gothic Bible]] were recopied.<ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=D. Gary |year=2019 |chapter=The Goths and Gothic |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN-RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 |title=The Oxford Gothic Grammar |location=[[Oxford]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=4 |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198813590.003.0001 |isbn=9780198813590 |lccn=2018956032 |s2cid=198009307}}</ref> After Theodoric's death in 526, the "Silver Bible" is not mentioned in inventories or book lists for a thousand years.