Editing Codex Argenteus (section)

===Publications===
The earliest mention of the Gothic manuscript, in 1569, by [[Goropius Becanus]], appears in his book ''Origines Antwerpianae'':{{quote|text=So now let us come to another language, which the judgement of every man of distinguished learning at Cologne identifies as Gothic, and examine the aforesaid Lord's Prayer written in that [language] in a volume of great age belonging to the monastery of Werden in the district of Berg, about four miles from Cologne. This [volume] was kindly made available to me, with his notable generosity towards all researchers, by the most reverend and learned [[Maximilien Morillon]], from among the papers of his late brother Antoine.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=l0n8QL3crpYC ''Origines Antwerpianae''], Liber VII. Gotodanica: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1569, p. 740.</ref>}}

In 1597, [[Bonaventura Vulcanius]], [[Leiden]] professor of Greek, published his book ''De literis et lingua Getarum sive Gothorum''. It was the first publication of a Gothic text altogether, calling the manuscript "Codex argenteus":

{{quote|text=In regard to this Gothic language, there have come to me [two] brief dissertations by an unidentifiable scholar - shattered planks, as it were, from the shipwreck of the Belgian libraries; the first of these is concerned with the script and pronunciation [of the language], and the other with the Lombardic script which, as he says, he copied from a manuscript codex of great antiquity which he calls "the Silver".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GRA8AAAAcAAJ&q=De+litteris+et+lingua+Getarum ''De literis et lingua Getarum''], 1597, p.4. Note that according to this Vulcanius did not himself invent the epithet 'Argenteus' but found it in the notes of an unidentified precursor.</ref>}}

But he was not only the first who enabled the learned world to make the acquaintance of the Gothic translation of the Gospels in Gothic script, but also the first who connected this version with the name of Ulfilas:

{{quote|text=With all due respect to these writers, I should think that the use of Gothic scripts existed among the Goths long before the time of Wulfila but that it was he who first made it known to the Romans by translating the Holy Bible into the Gothic language.  I have heard that a manuscript copy of this, and a very ancient one, written in Gothic capital letters, is lurking in some German library.<ref>''De literis et lingua Getarum'', 1597, p.3</ref>}}

[[Image:Oratio Dominica.jpg|thumb|Part of the [[Lord's Prayer]] from ''De Literis & Lingva GETARUM Sive GOTHORUM'', 1597, p.33.]]
In his book Vulcanius published two chapters about the Gothic language which contained four fragments of the Gothic New Testament: the Ave Maria (Luke I.28 and 42), the Lord's Prayer (Matt. VI.9-13), the Magnificat (Luke I.46-55) and the Song of Simeon (Luke II.29-32), and consistently gave first the Latin translation, then the Gothic in Gothic characters, and then a transliteration of the Gothic in Latin characters.

In 1737, [[Lars Roberg]], a physician of Uppsala, made a [[woodblock printing|woodcut]] of one page of the manuscript; it was included in [[Henric Benzelius|Benzelius]]' edition of 1750, and the woodcut is preserved in the [[Linköping]] Diocesan and Regional Library. Another edition of 1854&ndash;7 by [[Anders Uppström]] contained an artist's rendition of another page. In 1927, a facsimile edition of the Codex was published.

The standard edition is that published by [[Wilhelm Streitberg]] in 1910 as ''Die Gotische Bibel'' (''The Gothic Bible'').