The List of Sixty Books (7th Century)

The Gospel of Barnabas appears at number 24 in the apocryphal section of this seventh-century catalogue.

This list is useful because it provides a second early catalogue witness, independent of the Decretum Gelasianum, that the name of a Gospel according to Barnabas remained in memory among disputed or rejected writings.

Catalogue of the Sixty Canonical Books (7th Century) [=LX]^[1]

This list, most likely originating in the seventh century and preserved across several manuscripts, reflects the widely held view in the later Greek Church regarding the canon of sixty books (thirty-four from the Old Testament and twenty-six from the New). Only twenty-six New Testament books are enumerated, as the Revelation of John is omitted. Following the enumeration of the canonical books, the catalogue proceeds to list the writings classified as "outside the sixty," together with those designated as "apocrypha."

The Apocryphal Writings

[1] The Greek text of the Catalogue of the Sixty Canonical Books is preserved in several manuscripts; the standard critical edition appears in Theodor Zahn, Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons, vol. 2, part 1 (Erlangen: Deichert, 1890), pp. 290–292. See also Henry Barclay Swete, An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), appendix. The list is sometimes designated Anonymi Catalogus LX Librorum Canonicorum.