Images: Badische Landesbibliothek
Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Q8a1
Physical description: parchment, 339 × 245 mm, 74 fols.
Language: Latin
Date: 1385
Provenance: Italy
Contents:
Book about the Birth of the Savior (sections 1–7), including a combination of the Protevangelium of James 1:1–3:3 and Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew 1:1–2:2 (fol. 24v)
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (fols. 25r–31r; from 2:2 to the end, with the pars altera
Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 31r–40r)
Additional contents: collected medical texts (fols. 1r–24r); History of Alexander the Great with illustrations (fols. 42r–72v).
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. 210–11).
Holder, Alfred. Die Rechenauer Handschriften, Band 1, Die Pergamenthandschriften. Neudruck mit bibliographischen Nachträgen. Die Handschriften der Badischen Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe 5. Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1970 (pp. 203–206).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 12 April 2017.