Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 648

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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Q1a1

Physical description: parchment, 175 × 131 mm, 60 fols., 1 col.

Language: Latin

Date: fols. 1–5 15th cent.; fols. 7–60 12th/13th cent.

Provenance: Rheims

Contents:

Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (fols. 7r–23v) prefaced by the spurious letters between Chromatius and Heliodorus and Jerome, with pars altera (fols. 23v–27v)

Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 27v–44r)

Healing of Tiberius (fols. 44v–48r)

Life of the Virgin Mary by Epiphanius (fols. 50r–57v)

Additional contents:  Nerone pessimo persecutore christianorum (fols. 48v–49v), De Domitiano Caesare (fols. 49v–50r).

Catalogs:

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. 151–52).

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. 176–77).

Poncelet, Albert. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Subsidia hagiographica 11. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1910 (p. 396).

Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 21 February 2018.