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

by Edited by J. E. Cross , With contributions by Denis Brearley , Julia Crick , Thomas N. Hall , Andy Orchard

• ISBN13: 9780521561945
• ISBN10: 0521561949
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of plates	vii	(1)
Acknowledgements	viii	(2)
List of abbreviations	x
PART I Discussion	1	(132)
1 Introduction	3	(7)
J.E. Cross
2 The Manuscript: Saint-Omer, Bibliotheque Municipale	10	(26)
J.E. CROSS
JULIA CRICK
3 The Euangelium Nichodemi and Vindicta saluatoris in Anglo-Saxon England	36	(46)
THOMAS N. HALL
4 Saint-Omer 202 as the manuscript source for the Old English texts	82	(23)
J.E. CROSS
5 The style of the texts and the translation strategy	105	(26)
ANDY ORCHARD
PART II Texts and translations	131	(163)
Editorial and translation procedure	133	(5)
Euangelium Nichodemi: Latin text and translation	138	(1)
Euangelium Nichodemi: Old English text and translation	139	(109)
Vindicta saluatoris: Latin text and translation	248	(1)
Vindicta saluatoris: Old English text and translation	249	(45)
J. E. CROSS
DENIS BREARLEY
ANDY ORCHARD
Bibliography	294	(6)
THOMAS N. HALL
Index	300