The Goth were Arians ,they followed bishop Arian of Egypt in their beliefs, as did all other Germanic people, who had taken on baptism as Christians up to that time. An exception were the Frankish group of Germanic people, who converted directly to Catholicism.
The "Silver Bible" was probably written for Gothic King Theodoric the Great at his seat in Ravenna?. It was made as a special and impressive book written with gold and silver ink on high quality vellum. It had an ornate binding.
After Theodoric's death the Silver Bible was lost for a thousand years.
Arianism was condemmed and persecuted . The Roman empire vanished. Byzantium,then Frankish and Holy Roman Empire came and parts of the "Codex Argenteus" were kept at Werden, Rhineland, Germany. At that time in the 16st century Werden was in the Holy Roman Empire or Sacrum Romanum Imperium. The book ,or the remaining part of it ,came to Emperor [Rudolph II]? at his imperial seat in Prague.At the end of the Thirty Years Warin 1648 it was taken as war booty to Stockholm, Sweden to the Queen Christina Library. After her becoming Catholic and her abdication the book wound up in Holland. Again it was taken to Sweden to the Uppsala University, where it remains to this day at the library.
It is unknown whether the other half of the book survived. One leaf is at Speyer? in Germany. Great mysteries surround the wanderings of this Codex ,the disappearance for a thousand years and possible fragmental remains.
Some Gothic language texts are found today in a few palimpsets and in other fragments.
The palimpsets are: "Codex Carolinus" in Wolfenbuettel? , Codices of Milan, Torino and the Vatican.
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