Gospel of Nicodemus Preserved in Poland

This volume presents two related texts of the Gospel of Nicodemus from the little known Central European tradition: a late medieval Polish translation of the apocryphon from the codex of Laurentius of Lask and its Latin model as preserved in KrakĂłw, Biblioteka Jagiellonska MS 1509. Both Latin and Polish versions are remarkable as they retain several archaic features attested in the earliest witnesses of the apocryphon but lost in the mainstream medieval traditions. The book begins with and introduction presenting the Latin and Polish traditions as well as the characteristics of the manuscripts edited in the volume. The edition itself is in fact a four-column synopsis displaying side by side the transliteration, the translation, and the transcription of the Polish Ewangelia Nikodema and the edition of the Latin Evangelium Nicodemi. For each text a concordance as well as lists of forms and frequencies have been added. Polish-Latin and Latin Polish glossaries of all words and expressions used in the text complete this second Instrumenta volume.