The Middle English prose Complaint of Our Lady and Gospel of Nicodemus
By: ed. from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498 by C. William Marx and Jeanne F. Drennan.
Contributors: Marx, C. William.; Drennan, Jeanne F.; Magdalene College (University of Cambridge).
Series: Middle English texts ;; 19
Publisher: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng; enm; roa
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Devotional literature.; Jesus Christ -- Resurrection.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Early works to 1800.; Bible. N.T. -- History of Biblical events.; English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500.; Christian literature, English (Middle)
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Gospel of Nicodemus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-232).
"The ME prose Complaint of Our Lady and Gospel of Nicodemus, edited together in this volume, present an account of the passion and resurrection of Christ ... the Complaint portion is a narrative of the passion given from the point of view of the Virgin Mary ... The account of the resurrection is a specially adapted translation of portions of the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus"--Introd.
Includes also an Anglo-Norman version for comparison.
"Selective glossary": p. 218-225.