Hereford, Hereford Cathedral Library, O.3.9

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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Jb1

Physical description: parchment, 280 × 190 mm, iv + 137 fols., 2 cols.

Language: Latin

Date: 13th cent.

Provenance: may once have belonged to the Grey Friars of Hereford. It came into the possession of the Hereford Dominicans ca. 1500.

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. 114^v–133^v); introduced with the Ego Iacobus prologue; contains chapters 1–100 of the compilation; prefaced with two titles: Hystoria de concepcione beate Marie (fol. 114^r) and Lectiones de uenerabili concepcione beate Marie (fol. 114^v); interwoven with elements of the Office for the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary.

Additional contents: Gregory the Great, Homeliae XL in Evangelia (fols. 1^r–113^v).

Catalogs:

Bannister, Arthur Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Hereford Cathedral Library. Hereford: Wilson & Phillips, 1927 (pp. 34–36; description by M. R. James).

Corbin, Solange. “Miracula beatae Mariae semper virginis.” Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 10 (1967): 409–33 (p. 421, n. 45).

Gijsel, Jan. Libri de Nativitate Mariae: Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium: Textus et commentarius. CCSA 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997 (p. 216).

James, M. R. Latin Infancy Gospels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927 (pp. x–xi).

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 (pp. 654–55).

Mynors, R. A. B., and Rodney M. Thomson. Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library. Cambridge: Brewer, 1993 (pp. 21–22).

Schenkl, Heinrich. Bibliotheca patrum latinorum Britannica, vol. 3.2: Die Bibliotheken der englischen Kathedralen (Schluss). Vienna: Gerold, 1898 (p. 12, no. 4097).

Other online databases: Mirabile

Entry created by Bradley N. Rice, McGill University, 1 December 2023.