Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 288

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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Q4a1

Physical description: vellum, 250 × 185 mm, 124 fols., long lines and 2 cols.

Language: Latin

Date: ca. 1100–1299

Provenance: Christ Church, Canterbury

Contents:

Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 38r–54v)

Vengeance of the Savior (fols. 54v–60r)

Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (fols. 65v–78v) prefaced by the spurious letters between Chromatius and Heliodorus and Jerome and Trinubium Annae; with pars altera (fols. 78v–82r).

Legend of the Holy Rood Tree (Post peccatum Adae) (fols. 82r–84v)

Additional contents: Letters of Alan of Tewkesbury (fols. 1r–9v); De ecclesiasticis officiis secundum Ieronimum (fols. 10r–33v); Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio missae (fols. 34r–37v); Exempla miscellany (fols. 84v–88r; cf. CCCC 441, pp. 520–28); Joseph and Aseneth (CAVT 105; fols. 88r–98r); Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (fols. 98v–101v); Hildegard of Bingen, Letter to the Clergy of Cologne (fols. 101v–104r); De Tartaris, dated 1239 (fols. 104r–106v); Letters of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (fols. 106v–109r); Gravamina Anglorum adversum potestatem papae (fols. 109v–110v); excerpts from glosses on the books of Kings (Chron.?), Tobit, Judith, Esther, Daniel, Maccabees (fols. 111r–125v).

Catalogs:

Gijsel, Jan, ed. Libri de nativitate Mariae: Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium, textus et commentarius, Libellus de nativitate sanctae Mariae, textux et commentarius. CCSA 9 Turnhout: Brepols, 1997 (pp. 168–69).

Gijsel, Jan. Die unmittelbare Textüberlieferung des sogenannten Pseudo-Matthäus. Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren 96. Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 1981 (pp. 202–203).

James, M. R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 (pp. 58–63).

Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 14 January 2018.