Dear Gordon,
Most of the relevant material is transcribed in Ashley and Sheingorn. If
you want to get back to the original texts you could try to get hold of :
James, M.R., 1924. The Apocryphal New Testament: being the Apocryphal
Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Apocalypses. Oxford: Clarendon Press
or any edition of the Golden Legend of De Voragine. It's only the Golden
Legend which has the later and more elaborate developments of the story
including Anne's own totally fictional parents - her mother Emerantiana,
her pious father Stollanus and her sister Esmeria (mother of Elizabeth and
grandmother of John the Baptist). You could also look at
Mulder-Bakker, Hanneka, 1995. Sanctity and Motherhood: essays on holy
mothers in the Middle Ages. New York and London: Garland Publishing.
(This is all a bit bitty because it's cut-and-pasted from something I'm
working on at the moment).
Best wishes
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray
Department of Humanities and Science
UWCN
'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
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