Sinope Gospels
| New Testament manuscript | |
A page from the Sinope Gospels. The miniature at the bottom shows Christ healing the blind | |
| Name | Sinope Gospels |
|---|---|
| Sign | O |
| Text | Gospel of Matthew |
| Date | 6th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Sinope 1899 |
| Now at | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Size | 30 x 25 cm |
| Type | Byzantine |
| Category | V |
The Sinope Gospels, designated by O or 023 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 21 (Soden), also known as the Codex Sinopensis, is a fragment of a 6th-century illuminated Greek Gospel Book. Along with the Rossano Gospels, the Sinope Gospels has been dated, on the basis of the style of the miniatures, to the mid 6th-century. The Rossano Gospels, however, are considered to be earlier. Like Rossanensis and the Vienna Genesis, the Sinope Gospels are written on purple dyed vellum.