Editing Codex Argenteus (section)

==Script and illumination==
[[File:Detail of Codex Argenteus.jpg|thumb|Detail of the {{lang|la|Codex argenteus}}, [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] {{bibleverse-nb||Matthew|5:34|RSV}}, a scan of the 1927 facsimile edition. The highlighted section is an abbreviation of the Gothic cognate of "[[God (word)|God]]".]]
The manuscript is written in an [[uncial]] script in the [[Gothic alphabet]], reportedly created by [[Ulfilas]].  The script is very uniform, so much so that it has been suggested that it was made with stamps.  However, two hands have been identified: one hand in the Gospels of Matthew and John and another in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. The [[Illuminated manuscript|illumination]] is limited to a few large, framed initials and, at the bottom of each page, a silver arcade which encloses the monograms of the four evangelists.

In the 1920s, German conservator Hugo Ibscher worked on the conservation of the Codex.<ref>Rolf Ibscher: ''Hugo Ibscher zum Gedächtnis.'' In: ''Das Altertum'', Volume 5 (1959), pp. 183–189.</ref>