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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel A4a6
Physical description: parchment, 230 × 155 mm, 184 fols., 2 cols.
Language: Latin
Date: 13th–15th cent.
Provenance: Unknown
Contents:
Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 87v–98r)
Composite text (fols. 110v–115v): spurious letters between Chromatius and Heliodorus and Jerome; Nativity of Mary 1:1–3:9; Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew 3:2–end (with interpolations from Nativity of Mary 7:7–9; 8:1–2, 4, and 5; and 9:2); Infancy Gospel of Thomas Egyptian Prologue (from the Late Latin tradition); pars altera 26–end
Passion of Matthew (fols. 146r–148v)
Additional contents: Composite volume, including legendary histories (Charlemagne, Alexander, Apollonius of Tyre); Letter of Prester John; saints’ lives; Visio Tnugdali; Visio monachi de Eynsham; Saint Patrick’s Purgatory; Vita Beati Barlaam et Iosaphat.
Catalogs:
Catalogue raisonné des principaux manuscrits du Cabinet de Monsieur Joseph-Louis-Dominique de Cambis, Marquis de Velleron. Avignon, 1770 (pp. 400–35).
Gijsel, Jan. Die unmittelbare Textüberlieferung des sogenannten Pseudo–Matthäus. Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren 96. Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 1981 (pp. 109–10).
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. 131–32).
Entry created by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 27 Oct 2021.