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.