Texts
De plasmatione Adam
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An early medieval Latin apocryphon about the creation of Adam.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Cologne, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, MS 15
Preceded by a version of the Ordinals of Christ and Chronica sancti Hieronymi.
f. 95r-v
Text
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5327/ff. 25–170
Part of Vita Adae et Evae.
Text
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 7418
rubric: De plasmatione protoplasti, sive Adami Written on a bifolium.
f. 280r
Text
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 846/ff. 99-114
Preceded by two Adam octipartitus texts.
ff. 106v–107r
MS
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 846/ff. 99-114
incipit: Ibi Deus Adam plasmauit, ubi Christus natus est, hoc est, in Bethlehem civitate. Ibi est medius mundus est
f. 106v–
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Venice, Biblioteca nazionale Marciana, MS lat. II.46
rubric: De octo pondera unde factus est homo
ff. 135v–136v
Sources
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[ed.] Pettorelli, Jean-Pierre, Jean-Daniel Kaestli, and Albert Frey, Vita latina Adae et Evae, Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, 18-19, Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.
177–179 Redaction incorporated in a version of the Vita Adae et Evae.
[ed.] Ploton-Nicollet, François, “Ioca monachorum et pseudo Interpretatio sancti Augustini”, Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 74:1 (2007): 109–159.
130 (text); 131 (translation); 157–159 (commentary) Texts from St Gallen MS 908.
[ed.] Munier, Charles, “La chronique pseudo-hiéronymienne de Sélestat: un schéma de catéchèse baptismale?”, Revue Bénédictine 104 (1994): 106–122.
110–112 Edited from the Sélestat MS.
[ed.] Wright, Charles D., “Apocryphal lore and insular tradition in St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek MS 908”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und die Christenheit: Bibelstudien und Mission. Ireland and Christendom: the Bible and the missions, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987. 124–145.
140–141 Texts from St Gallen MS 908.
[ed.] Hamman, Adalbert-Gautier (ed.), Patrologia cursus completae, serlies latina [Patrologiae latinae], supplementum, 5 vols, vol. 4, Paris: Garnier, 1967–1971.
923–926 (Baesecke); 938–941 (Förster) Reprints from Förster and Baesecke below.
[ed.] Baesecke, Georg, Der Vocabularius Sti. Galli in der angelsächsischen Mission, Halle: Halle, 1933.
Texts from St Gallen MS 913.
[ed.] Förster, Max, “Das älteste mittellateinische Gesprächbüchlein”, Romanische Forschungen 27:2 (1910): 342–348.
Internet Archive: <link>
Edited from the Sélestat MS. Reprinted in PLS 4: 938-941.
[ed.] Förster, Max, “Adams Erschaffung und Namengebung”, Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft 11 (1907–1908): 477–529.
Internet Archive: <link>
518–519 Edited from the Sélestat MS.
