Apocryphal Latin text which gives an account of the signs that will supposedly appear in the final week before the Last Judgment. The vision is said to have been revealed by Christ to a certain Thomas, presumably the doubting apostle of that name. Different versions of the text have been transmitted, but a broad distinction is commonly made between (1) a short recension, which is possibly closest to the original, (2) an interpolated one, which contains a preface, and (3) various abbreviated texts.
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Fragment of an apocryphal version of the Harrowing of Hell preserved in the Book of Cerne. Possibly the earliest extant piece of Christian drama in Britain, It consists of what look like stage directions by a narrator and prayers by the righteous souls in hell and by Adam and Eve. The text breaks off in the middle of Eve’s speech.
Short early medieval Latin treatise about the creation of Adam, the nature of the eight (or seven) cosmic components of which his body was made, and the four letters of his name. It has often been suggested that it ultimately derives from a Greek text of 2 Enoch 30: 8-9, although a Greek dialogue text of the Ioca monachorum kind has also been suggested as a possible source.
