Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 13707

Images: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel P2bx3/Ja6

Physical description: paper, 290 × 205/215mm, 216 fols., 2 cols.

Language: Latin

Date: 1472

Provenance: Charterhouse of Roermond

Contents:

Pseudo-Clementines (Recognition and Epistle of Peter to James) (fols. 1r–70v)

Acts of John by Prochorus (fols. 148r–168v)

Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (fols. 203r–207r)

“J Compilation,” which combines a Latin version of Protevangelium of James with the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Book of the Nativity of the Savior (fols. 94r–97v); starting at section 59 (according to James’s edition), with pars altera up to chap. 42 (fols. 207r–213v)

Additional contents: Bede, Ecclesiastical History (fols. 72r–136v); Pseudo-Bede De mirabilibus (fols. 137r–146r); Ars praedicandi (fols. 168v–171v); Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’s Chronicon (fols. 172r–187v); Robert Grosseteste’s translation of Testamentum duodecim patriarcharum (fols. 188r–201r); Joseph and Asenath (fols. 201r–202v); Anastasius Bibliothecarus, Passio decem milium martyrium (fols. 214r–216v).

Catalogs:

Academia Caesarea Vindobonensis. Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum, praeter graecos et orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum. Vol. 7: Cod. 11501–14000. Vienna: Gerold, 1875 (p. 252).

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.  205–206 and 215–16).

Mazal, O. “Gothische Blindstempelbände aus der Kartause Roermond.” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 49 (1974): 294–302.

Pächt, O. and U. Jenni. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, vol. 3. Vienna: Verlag der österr. Akademie der Wissenschaft, 1975 (p. 93).

Other online databases: HMML

Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 7 May 2017.