Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, N 430

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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Ja2

Physical description: parchment, 181 × 125 mm, 70 fols.

Language: Latin

Date: 12th/13th cent.

Provenance: Italy

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. 37r–57r). A later scribe prefaced it with the title De quibus parentibus nata fuit beata virgo Maria. Contains only chapters 1–58 of the compilation.

Additional contents: Navigatio sancti Brendani, Liber generationis filii David filii Abrami et reliqua.

Catalogs:

Gijsel, Jan. Libri de Nativitate Mariae: Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium: Textus et commentarius. CCSA 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997 (pp. 213–14).

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. 648–49).

Porro, Giulio. Trivulziana: Catalogo dei cod. manoscritti. Turin: Paravia, 1884 (p. 466).

Santoro, Caterina. I codici medioevali della Biblioteca trivulziana. Milan: Biblioteca trivulziana, 1965 (no. 125, p. 74).

Santoro, Caterina. Codices trivultiani antiquiores ab viii usque ad xii saeculum. Milan: Hoepli, 1950 (no. 7, p. 36).

Other online databases: Mirabile; Manus Online.

Entry created by Bradley N. Rice, McGill University, 2 December 2023.