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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Ja5
Physical description: paper, 203 × 296 mm, 109 fols.
Language: Latin
Date: 15th cent.
Provenance: acquired by the Stadtbibliothek in 1803.
Contents:
“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. 47r–63r); prefaced by the spurious letters between Chromatius and Heliodorus and Jerome; with pars altera (through chapter 125).
Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 77r–87r)
Additional contents: Psalmorum brevissima expositio, Problema de difformitatibus provinciarum, Epistola Raby Samuelis Israhelite, licet cathecumini, de fide christiana, Visio Tundali, excerpts from chronicles.
Catalogs:
Gijsel, Jan. “Les ‘Évangiles latins de l’Enfance’ de M. R. James.” AnBoll 94 (1976): 289–302 (p. 291).
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 (p. 215).
Izydorczyk, Zbigniew. Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: A Census. Subsidia Mediaevalia 21. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1993 (no. 361; p. 179).
Kaestli, Jean Daniel, and Martin McNamara. “Latin Infancy Gospels: The J Compilation.” Pages 623–70 of vol. 2 of Apocrypha Hiberniae I: Evangelia Infantiae. Edited by Martin McNamara et al. 2 vols. CCSA 13–14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001 (p. 644).
Keuffer, Max. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Handschriften der Stadtbibiothek zu Trier. Fünftes Heft, Ascetische Schriften, 1. Abteilung. Trier: Lintz’sche Buchhandlung, 1900 (pp. 72–74).
Other online databases: Mirabile
Entry created by Bradley N. Rice, McGill University, 25 November 2023.