The history of Codex argenteus
Documents manuscript custody from Werden to Uppsala.
Codex argenteus’ journey- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Uppsala University Library
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Uppsala University
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. It maps custody of the two directly inspected evidence objects. The codex traveled through Werden, Prague, Stockholm, Holland, and Uppsala long after Gothic ceased to be a living vernacular in those places.
/ˈha.tan/ · Gothic class-III weak-verb lemma
A Gothic weak verb conventionally glossed hate, represented by exactly two currently reported corpus tokens: hatandane in Luke 1:71 and hatandans in Luke 6:27. Both are present participles; no surviving token writes the normalized infinitive. Their translation behavior defeats a one-word gloss: Luke 1 uses fijandam for enemies and hatandane for those hating, while Luke 6 uses hatandans for enemies and fijandam for those hating. Project Wulfila keeps class-III hatan separate from class-I hatjan, Braune calls the forms conjugational fluctuation, Orel publishes a reconstructed class-III alternation, and Sturtevant argues that the hatan shape may instead be a specifically Gothic secondary formation.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Documents manuscript custody from Werden to Uppsala.
Codex argenteus’ journeyIdentifies one directly inspected object inside that custody route.
Folio 123r, facsimile 145Identifies the second directly inspected object inside the same codex.
Folio 143v, facsimile 186Every post-Ravenna journey note explicitly labels manuscript custody rather than lexical diffusion.