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XXIII
Croce, Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historisclien
Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften
LXIII, 1870, pp. 197-200, from MS Wien 4373
(15th century). This text is fragmentary, correspond-
ing to L 1-115.
4. J. H. Mozley in The Journal of Theological
Studies XXX, 1929, p. 134 ff., from MS Balliol 228
(15th century). Only sections of Leg. are found in
this MS, inserted in a text of Vita Adae (see p. xxix).
An unprinted text, which has been available for
the editor, is found in a 15th-century Danish MS
in Uppsala, D 600, pp. 101-11.
The relationship between the above mentioned
Latin texts and the Icelandic translations is discussed
on pp. xxxvin ff., cxxx ff.
A considerable number of unprinted texts of the
Latin Leg. are found spread over Europe. In his
History of the Holy Rood-tree, 1894, p. xxxi,
A. Napier lists MSS in London, Oxford, Munich and
Vienna.
A survey of the biblical and mythological motifs
found in Leg. is given in Handwörterbuch des deut-
schen Aberglaubens V, 1932-33, col. 487 ff.
Leg. in its oldest known form—by Meyer called
Historia—survives in MSS from the first half of the
12th century2. Meyer did not succeed in finding any
trace of Leg. earlier than the 12th century but it
has since been proved that Historia can be traced
back to the 1 lth century3. The content of this version
is as follows4: In the time of David, a Jew finds a
2. AdBA XVI:2, p. 106; A. Wilmart in Revue Biblique XXXVI,
1927, p. 229.
3. AdBA XVI:2, p. 105; A. Wilmart, p. 232. An Old English
Leg. version, ed. A. Napier: History of the Holy Rood-tree, 1894,
Pp. 2-35, survives in a MS from c. 1150-75.
I. This Leg. version has been printed from different MSS by
A. Mussafia (see p. xxii), p. 202, in AdBA XVI :2, p. 107, and by
A. Wilmart, pp. 230-31.