Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source
The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour

The manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour.

J. E. Cross (Edited by), Denis Brearley (Contributions by), Julia Crick (Contributions by), Thomas N. Hall (Contributions by), Andy Orchard (Contributions by)

9780521033541, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 February 2007

324 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.491 kg

In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. In collaboration with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not simply into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.

List of plates
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. Discussion: 1. Introduction J. E. Cross
2. The manuscript: Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque Municipale, 202 J. E. Cross and Julia Crick
3. The Euangelium Nichodemi and Vindicta saluatoris in Anglo-Saxon England Thomas N. Hall
4. Saint-Omer 202 as the manuscript source for the Old English texts J. E. Cross
5. The style of the texts and the translation strategy Andy Orchard
Part II. Texts and Translations: 6. Editorial and translation procedure J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard
7. Euangelium Nichodemi: Latin text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard
8. Euangelium Nichodemi: Old English text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard
9. Vindicta saluatoris: Latin text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard
10. Vindicta saluatoris: Old English text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard
Bibliography Thomas N. Hall
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]