The Oldest Manuscript of the Acts of Pilate: A Collaborative Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk To cite this version: Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk. The Oldest Manuscript of the Acts of Pilate: A Collaborative Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest. 2019. hal-02378821 HAL Id: hal-02378821 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02378821 Submitted on 25 Nov 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Proceedings of International Summer Schools on Christian Apocryphal Literature (P-ISCAL) – volume 2 The Oldest Manuscript of the Acts of Pilate A Collaborative Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest Edited by Anne-Catherine Baudoin and Zbigniew Izydorczyk The collection “Proceedings of the International Summer Schools on Christian Apocryphal Literature” (P-ISCAL) is published by the EA 4378 (Research Laboratory on Protestant Theology), University of Strasbourg. Directors of the publication Gabriella Aragione, University of Strasbourg (France) Rémi Gounelle, University of Strasbourg (France) Scientific Comitee Els Rose, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) Valentina Calzolari-Bouvier, University of Geneva (Switzerland) Jean-Michel Roessli, Concordia University (Canada) Illustration de la couverture : Dans la Cité de Dieu, manuscrit du milieu du XVe siècle, BNU Strasbourg, MS.523, folio 230 recto (détail), Coll. et Photogr. BNU de Strasbourg. 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The Oldest Manuscript of the Acts of Pilate 3 Table of Contents Preface Gabriella Aragione, Rémi Gounelle................................................................................................................................. 5 Abbreviations and Sigla ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction The Acts of Pilate and theEvangelium Nicodemi in the Age of Manuscripts Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ......................................................................................................... 13 The Protean Evangelium Nicodemi Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Rémi Gounelle, Justin Haynes, Zbigniew Izydorczyk .................................................. 21 A New Edition of the Evangelium Nicodemi: Some Working Assumptions Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................................................................... 33 The Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Religious Milieu Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................................................................... 37 Revised in Translation: Vernacular Legacies of the Evangelium Nicodemi Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................................................................... 43 The Strasbourg Manuscript of theEvangelium Nicodemi Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................................................................... 51 A Collaborative Commentary A Collaborative Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest: Editors’ Notes ..................................................................... 83 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment I (Preface) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ......................................................................................................... 87 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment II (Prologue) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ......................................................................................................... 91 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment III (Ch. 1.1-1.2) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk, Jacques-Norbert Nzaku, Maïeul Rouquette, Emmanuel Wald ............................................................................................................................. 93 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment IV (Ch. 2.5-3.1) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ......................................................................................................... 97 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment V (Ch. 3.2-4.1) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Antonin Charrié-Benoist, Zbigniew Izydorczyk, Ioannis Kalousios ......................... 99 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment VI (Ch. 4.2-4.3) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 101 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment VII (Ch. 4.5-5.1) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 103 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment VIII (Ch. 5.2-6.1) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk, Damien Labadie, Orlane Martin de Lassalle, Esther Nlandumoyo ....................................................................................................... 105 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment IX (Ch. 6.2-6.4) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 107 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment X (Ch. 7.1-7.2) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 109 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XI (Ch. 10.1-10.2) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Era Gordeau, Zbigniew Izydorczyk .............................................................................. 113 4 The Oldest Manuscript of the Acts of Pilate A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XII (Ch. 12.2-12.3) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Era Gordeau, Zbigniew Izydorczyk .............................................................................. 117 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XIII (Ch. 13.2-13.3) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 119 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XIV (Ch. 13.3-13.4) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 121 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XV (Ch. 14.1) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 123 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XVI (Ch. 15.6-16.1.1) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 125 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XVII (Ch. 16.1.2-16.1.3) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 127 A Commentary on the Vienna Palimpsest – Segment XVIII (Ch. 16.3.2-16.4) Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ....................................................................................................... 131 Some Observations on Sources and Legacies of the Vienna Palimpsest Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ...................................................................................................... .135 An Index of Forms Occurring in the Vienna Palimpsest Anne-Catherine Baudoin ............................................................................................................................................. .143 Gabriella ARAGIONE, Rémi GOUNELLE Preface The first International Summer School on Christian Apocryhal Literature (ISCAL) took place in 2012. It was dedicated to the Virtutes Apostolorum—an anonymous collection of texts relating to the history of the apostles, composed in Latin probably towards the end of the 6th century—and to its reception in artistic production. The second Summer School was devoted to another famous apocryphal text that was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages: the Gospel of Nicodemus, an anonymous text relating to the Passion of Jesus, probably written in Greek in the second half of the 4th century. It was held in Strasbourg from 9 to 12 June, 2014. This second iteration of ISCAL focused on the phenomenon of translation and rewriting during the Middle Ages. It allowed students from several countries to interact with