SECOND CENTURY. XV. APOCRYPHAL AND UNCANONICAL GOSPELS, &c. Besides the books which form the canon of the New Testament, there are still extant several Gospels, Acts, and other writings, which profess to be the production of the Apostles or of their contemporaries. As these compositions are very rarely met with, even among the clergy themselves, it may not be amiss to give a list of such as have been preserved. They are, nearly all, to be found in volumes bearing the following title: Codex Apocryphus novi Testamenti, collectus, castigatus, testimoniisque, censuris, et animadversionibus illustratus, a Johanne Alberto Fabricio, S. S. Theol. D. Professore Publ. et h. t. Gymnasii Rectore, editio secunda, emendatior et tertio etiam tomo, separatim venali, aucta. Hamburgi; sumptu viduæ Benjam. Schilleri et Joh. Christoph. Kisneri, Ao 1719. A new edition of these Apocryphal writings was afterwards meditated by Thilo, a German scholar, and in 1823 appeared a volume with the following title: Acta S. Thomæ Apostoli, ex codd. Pariss. primum edidit et adnotationibus illustravit Joannes Carolus Thilo, Phil. Doctor et Theol. professor P. E. in Acade mia Fridericiana. Præmissa est notitia uberior novæ codicis Apocryphi Fabriciani editionis. Lipsiæ, 1823, sumptibus Frid. Christ. Gulielmi Vogelii. The first volume of the inore complete edition which Thilo promised was published in 1832, under the following title: Codex Apocryphus Novi Testamenti. E libris editis et manuscriptis, maxime Gallicanis, Germanicis, et Italicis, collectus, recensitus, notisque et prolegomenis illustratus, opera et studio Joannis Caroli Thilo, Phil. et Theol. doctoris hujusque in Academia Fridericia Halensi Professoris. Tomus primus. Lipsiæ, 1832. Sumptibus Frid. Christ. Guilielmi Vogelii; (containing altogether 1056 pages). This volume is, however, all that has yet appeared, and as it contains some pieces not found in the collection of Fabricius, which, on the other hand, contains several not edited by Thilo, it is necessary for the student to procure all the volumes abovementioned. The principal works which they contain are comprized in the following list: Protevangelium JACOBI MINORIS. The Greek title is Διηγησις και ἱστορια πως εγεννηθη ἡ ὑπεραγια θεοτοκος εις ήμων σωτηρίαν. In Greek. Thilo, pp. 161-274. Fabric. vol. i, pp. 66-126. Evangelium THOME ISRAELITE de his quæ adhuc puer patravit Dominus. The Greek title is Θωμα Ισραηλιτου φιλοσοφου ρητα εις τα Taidia тоv Kupiov. In Greek. Thilo, pp. 277-315; (called Evangelium infantia in Fabricius, where it occurs less complete at vol. i, pp. 159–167. Evangelium DE NATIVITATE S. MARIÆ. In Latin only. Thilo, pp. 319–336. Fabric. vol. i, pp. 19-38. Historia JOSEPHI FABRI lignarii. This work is in Arabic only, and is found in Thilo, pp. 1-61. Evangelium infantiæ Servatoris. In Arabic only. Thilo pp. 65-131. The Latin translation only, by H. Sike, of this Gospel is given in Fabricius, vol. i, pp. 168-212. Evangelium MARCIONIS. In Greek. Thilo, pp. 401-486. Evangelium NICODEMI. The Greek title is Υπομνηματα του Κυρίου ἡμων Ιησου Χριστου, ά επραχθησαν επι Ποντιου Πιλάτου ἡγεμονευοντος της Ιουδαίας. In Greek. Thilo, pp. 487-816. The Latin translation only, less complete, is found in Fabricius, vol. i, pp. 238-298. ACTA S. THOMÆ, Græce. The Greek title is Περιοδος και μαρτυριον του Αγιου Θωμα του Αποστολου. It is in Greek, and is found only in the volume of Thilo beforementioned. Epistolæ duæ ad Tiberium imperatorem, PILATO attributæ. Latin only in Fabricius, vol. i, pp. 298-301. Epistola LENTULI ad Senatum Romanum. Latin only in Fabricius, vol. i, p. 301. Scripta et dicta quæ ad JESUM CHRISTUM relata |