“Narrative of the Pseudo Joseph of Arimathea”
From “The Apocryphal Gospels”, Aurelio de Santos Otero (1956); edition of C. Tischendorf, Apocalypses Apocryphae (Lipsiae 1866) p.113-123.
Aurelio de Santos Otero says:
It is the one called by Tischendorf Transitus A. He used three codices for his edition:
Although late, the present narrative arouses interest for having been the disseminator in the medieval West of many legends contained in the Ps. John and in the Thessalonian. Add, in addition to this, the curious episode of Thomas, already outlined in some interpolated manuscripts from the Thessalonian, which has had its replica in the legend and in the Assumptionist iconography. Let us remember in this regard, as an example, the panel by N. Florentino (15th century), preserved in the old cathedral of Salamanca, where the Virgin appears throwing the famous girdle from the clouds to Thomas, who is kneeling over the head. empty tomb