Images: ONB
Other shelfmark(s): none
Physical description: parchment, 190 × 145/150 cm, 177 fols., 1 col.; originally four separate codices, the fourth of which (fols. 122–177) is a palimpsest
Language: Latin
Date: 11th/12th cent. (fols. 1–121); overtext 8th cent., undertext 5th cent. (fols. 122–177)
Provenance: likely Italy
Contents:
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (undertext fols. 132, 135, 137, 141, 142, 171, 176)
Gospel of Nicodemus (undertext fols. 123, 125, 126, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134, 136–140, 143, 144, 146–154, 161–170, 173, 174, 177)
Additional contents: in fols. 122–177 Gospel of Matthew (undertext), excerpts from Augustine, Ambrose, and others (overtext). In fols. 1–121 lives of Gorgonius, Brandani, and Adelfi.
Catalogs/Studies:
Academia Caesarea Vindobonensis. Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum, praeter graecos et orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum. Vol. 1: Cod. 1–2000. Vienna: Gerold, 1864 (p. 96).
Baudoin, Anne-Catherine, and Zbigniew Izydorczyk, eds. The Oldest Manuscript of the Acts of Pilate: A Collaborative Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest. Proceedings of the International Summer Schools on Christian Apocryphal Literature 2. Strassbourg, 2019.
Despineux, Myriam. “Une version latine palimpseste du Ve siècle de l’Évangile de Nicodème (Vienne, ÖNB MS 563).” Scriptorium 42 (1988): 176–83.
Hermann, Hermann Julius. Die frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften des Abendlandes. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Nationalbibliothek in Wien 1. Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1923 (pp. 43–45).
Izydorczyk, Zbigniew. Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: A Census. Subsidia Mediaevalia 21. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1993 (no. 393; pp. 192–93).
Lowe, E. A. Codices latini antiquiores: A Paleographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century. 11 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934–1966 (vol. 10, p. 14).
Philippart, Guy. “Fragments palimpsestes latins du Vindobonensis 563 (Ve siècle?): Évangile selon S. Matthieu, Évangile de Nicodème, Évangile de l’Enfance selon Thomas.” AnBoll 90 (1972): 391–411.
Philippart, Guy. “Les fragments palimpsestes de l’Évangile de Nicodème dans Vindobonensis 563 (Ve siècle?).” AnBoll 107 (1989): 171–88.
Other online databases: ONB; manuscripta.at; Mirabile; Biblissima; Earlier Latin Manuscripts
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 9 January 2024.