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of Christ and is used for the cross. Shortly after-
wards the Jews are vanquished by the Emperor
Titus and those Jews who have not been killed
are soid 30 for a penny (116-41).
According to Meyer all these features are found in
the Leg. version in Legenda Aurea8. This is, how-
ever, only correct as far as the conclusion A 132-41
is concerned. That the Jews after the fall of Jerusalem
were sold 30 for a penny is related in Legenda Aurea
in the section De Sancto Jacobo Apostolo9 10, which
immediately precedes Leg. Jacobus de Voragine
does not, however, say that the queen’s name is
Sibilla and in his account the tree is not laid down
beside the Temple, but used as a bridge (Johannes
Beleth) or placed in Solomon’s house in the wood
(Petrus Comestor). Nor is it in accordance with
Legenda Aurea that the tree is dropped into a bog;
Jacobus follows Comestor on this point, who says
that the tree was buried in the earth. The details
in A which do not agree with Legenda Aurea are,
however, to be found in Godfrey of Viterbo’s Leg.
version. A 113-41 may be a combination of the Leg.
versions in Pantheon and Legenda Aurea, a com-
bination which would seem to be without paralleP0.
The last section of A, 108-41, is much more con-
centrated than the first section and sliorter than the
corresponding section in any other Leg. version.
In A Moses is only mentioned in a couple of lines
and David is not even named. It is possible that
A has been abridged and there is internal evidence
to support this theory. Both the Latin Leg., of
which A 1-108 is a translation, and Godfrey’s Leg.
version, which, as mentioned above, shares many
8. AdBA XVI: 2, p. 152.
9- Ed. Th. Græsse, p. 302, transl. II. Benz, I coll. 453-54.
10. Cf. the Hb-edition, p. cxxiv.