Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.122.

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f. 8

It ys read yn the ghospell of nycodemus that after that the jewees and romaines had cruciffied our lord jesus chryst that there was a good and just man by name josophe of arathemathia a cytti of jwry which loked for the kyngdome of god and consenting not willing to accord unto the accusations of the jewes …

f. 16

… the devyne thinges and sacred mysteryes which we have seane which we have hard karynus and leurius [f. 16v] breathearin and the sonnes of symeon.

‘Be a[..]st there fables of that romain parpall sinagogue ys not now exstant thorought somtym imprynted in the inglisshe tounge under the tytle of nychodemus ghospell i have agayn written thee same out of their one purostilles as john horolt sermon …’ (f. 8). The Gospel of Nicodemus. IPMEP 397; Wells Rev. 2:640–1 [312]. One of various prose translations.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 2 verse versions in 5 MSS and 6 independent prose versions extant in 10 MSS; IPMEP adds 3 more MSS. For MSS already indexed see IMEP 1 indexing HM 144 [2]; IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Rylands Eng 895 [2]; IMEP 6 indexing Brotherton 501 [12]; and IMEP 15 indexing Worcester Cathedral Library F.172 [1].

s. xv ex./xvi in.