Book of the Nativity of the Savior (Latin Infancy Gospel)

Liber de infantia Saluatoris

Standard abbreviation: Nat. Sav. (also Birth Sav.)

Other titles: Book about the Birth of the Savior

Clavis numbers: ECCA 674; CANT 53

Related literature: Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew; Hospitality and Ointment of the Bandit

Category: Infancy Gospels

Status: unassigned

Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style):

 

1. SUMMARY

2. RESOURCES

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Latin (BHL 5345m, BHL 5345p)

Ja1 (M1)  Montpellier, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de médicine, 55, fols. 94r97r (ca. 800) ~ chs. 1–21 only

Ja2  Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, N 430, fols. 37r57r (12th cent.)

Ja3 (JALondon, British Library, Arundel 404, fols. 1r–19r (14th cent.) ~ chs. 1–42

Ja4  Trier, Stadtbibliotek, 550/1538, fols. 9r47v (end 14th cent.)

Ja5  Trier, Stadtbibliotek, 615/1558, fols. 47r–63r (15th cent.)

Ja6/P2bx3  Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 13707, fols. 207r–213v (1472) ~ begins at ch. 59

Ja7/Q8a  Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. LXIII, fol. 24v (1385) ~ chs. 1–7

Jb1 (JH)  Hereford, Cathedral Library, O.III.9, fols. 114v–133v (13th cent.)

Jb2  Alençon, Bibliothèque municipale, 17, fols. 99r–121r (13th cent.)

James, M. R. Latin Infancy Gospels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927.

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.

3.1.2 Middle Irish

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 P 16 (the Leabhar Breac), pp. 133b–144b (1408–1411)

3.2 Modern Translations

3.3 General Works