Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 66A

Images: Parker Library on the Web

Other shelfmark(s): none

Physical description: 298 × 203 mm., 300 fols., 2 cols.

Language: Latin

Date: ca. 1300–1399

Provenance: Bury St. Edmunds

Contents:

Legend of the Holy Rood Tree (fols. 221v–224r)

Life of Judas (fol. 232v)

Additional contents: Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis (fols. 1r–67r); Willelmus de Rubruk, Itinerarium ad partes orientales (fols. 67r–110r); Itinerarium usque ad paradisum terrestrem (fols. 110r–116r); Imago mundi, liber primus (fols. 116r–127r); Prester John, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum (fols. 127r–130r); Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera (fols. 130v–138v); Pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat (fols. 139r–208r); Imago mundi, liber secundus (fols. 208r–221v); French verses on Seth or The Holy Rood (fols. 224v–227r); French verses on the Childhood of Jesus, based on the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Latin translation of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas known as the pars altera (fols. 227r–228r); Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis (excerpt) (fols. 228r–230r); Excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, book 5 (fols. 230r–231r); the Birth and Life of Pilate from The Golden Legend 53 (fols. 231r–232v); Visio Rodulfi (fols. 233r–234v); De Stephano monacho cartusiensi (fols. 234v–235v); Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (fols. 235v–238v).

Catalogs:

Baum, Paull Franklin. “The Mediaeval Legend of Judas Iscariot.” PMLA 31 (1916): 481–632.

James, M.R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 (pp. 137–45).

Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 11 January 2018.