THE BIBLE IN GOTHIC.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 18 January 1900, Page 15

THE BIBLE IN GOTHIC.

At Ursula, in Sweden (says the Are Maria'), is carefully preserved a curious and renowned old MS. known as ' The Silver HandWriting.' It consists of a translation of the Bible into the original Uothic, and the best authorities claim that it was written toward the end of the fifth or at the beginning of the sixth century. It was discovered in the sixteenth century at Verden, on the Ruhr, and its authenticity was at once established. It was taken to Prague, but the Swedes appropriated it in 1648, and carried it to Stockholm ; thence it was conveyed to Holland, and was bought again for Sweden by the Chancellor de la Gardie. He had it bound in a solid silver cover, and presented it to the University of Upsula. It is written in silver on crinibon parchment, the headings and some of the principal passages being in gold.