The Portuguese Book of Joseph of Arimathaea

Paleological Edition with Introduction, Linguistic Study, Notes, Plates, and Glossary

The Portuguese Book of Joseph of Arimathaea

464 pp., 6 x 9, 37 halftones, notes, bibl., glossary

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9071-4
    Published: January 1967

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This is an edition of the only Portuguese manuscript of the story of Joseph of Arimathea. It is a sixteenth-century copy of an early fourteenth-century original. This paleographic edition and the study based on it make contributions to the study of Old Portuguese and European Arthurian literature.