Codex Gissensis
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Codex Gissensis
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The Codex Gissensis was a fragmentary parchment manuscript, a Gothic–Latin diglot containing texts of the Bible in Gothic on the left and Latin on the right. The manuscript was made in the 6th century AD. Only a double-folio single leaf was known. It was discovered in Antinoë in Egypt and in 1907 brought to the German town Giessen, from which it gets is common name. During World War II, the manuscript was placed in the vault of the Dresdner Bank branch in Giessen to protect it from air raids. In
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