Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4578

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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Q4a2

Physical description: parchment, 320 × 240 mm, 44 fols., 1 col.

Language: Latin

Date: 14th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents (all three texts described together as liber de ortu uirginis Mariae et de infantia et pueritia et etiam passione domini nostri Iesu Christi):

Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (fols. 32r–35r)

Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 35r–37v) ~ here titled Euangelium Nazaraeorum

Infancy Gospel of Thomas (fols. 37v–38r)

Additional contents: Speculum ecclesiae conditum a papa Innocentio quarto; Tractatus de interiore domo seu de conscientia aedificanda by Pseudo-Bernard; Exercitationes beati Anselmi excitantes animam ad contemplandum deum; Soliloquium Augustini.

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 (p. 169).

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. 203–204).

Izydorczyk, Zbigniew. Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: A Census. Subsidia Mediaevalia 21. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1993 (no. 382, pp. 187–88).

Poncelet, Albertus. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Subsidia Hagiographica 11. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1910 (pp. 119–20).

Other online databases: Mirabile

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 17 June 2023.