which, besides the use of pure gold for the ink and paint, certifies the high value of the manuscript. In addition, this must be seen as one of the earliest examples of its use in paintings. The purple colour of the parchment was identified as Orchil, a dye extracted from lichens, similar to the results of analytical investigations carried out on other purple codices, and not the expected Tyrian purple dye. Sinope List of New Testament uncials References Further reading H. Omont, Notice sur un très ancien manuscrit grec de l'évangile de saint Matthieu..., Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la bibliothèque nationale..., vol. 36 (Paris, 1901), pp. 599–676. H. S. Cronin, Codex Chrysopurpureus Sinopensis, JTS II (1901), pp. 590–600. A. Munoz, Il codice purpureo di Rossano e il frammento sinopense (Rome 1907) C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments (J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung: Leipzig 1909), vol. 3, pp. 1022–1023. Petra Sevrugian, Der Rossano-Codex und die Sinope-Fragmente: Miniaturen und Theologie (Worms 1990) Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 442, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, External links Sinope Gospels - Complete Reproduction on BnF Gallica BnF Archives et manuscrits: Supplément grec 1286 image from Bibliothèque Nationale L'aventure des écritures website Gospel Books Purple parchment 6th-century biblical manuscripts Greek New Testament uncials Bibliothèque nationale de France collections 6th-century illuminated manuscripts Byzantine illuminated manuscripts