Incipit epistola qua[m] misit Rabi Samuel Israelita ordundus de ciuitate ... .
Samuel,Marochitanus
Alfonsus Bonihominis,Bishop of Marrakech,-1353,translator.
Silber, Eucharius,active 1480-1510,printer.
North, Frederick,Earl of Guilford,1766-1827,former owner.StEdNL
Spensley, J. R.,former owner.StEdNL
[Rome : Eucharius Silber,
ca. 1480]
An acknowledgement of Christ as Messiah, and a refutation of Judaism by scriptural references, supposedly written ca. 1000 AD by Rabbi Samuel Ibn Nasr Ibn Abbas of Fez (a converted Jew baptised at Toledo in 1085), and suppressed by the Jews for 230 years, before its 'translation' from Arabic into Latin by Alphonsus Bonihominis, a Dominican monk. Bonihominis is probably the forger--Collector's description.
Author attribution and imprint from ISTC.
First line of text: Incipit epistola qua[m] misit Rabi Samuel Israelita ordundus de ciuitate ... .
Harman: Purports to be a translation from Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihomine.
Contains a spurious letter from Pontius Pilate, as do about half the incunable editions in Goff.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c⁸.
First and final leaves are blank.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
With manuscript annotations.
Goff
GW
ISTC
Harman, M. Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (1979),
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
An acknowledgement of Christ as Messiah, and a refutation of Judaism by scriptural references, supposedly written ca. 1000 AD by Rabbi Samuel Ibn Nasr Ibn Abbas of Fez (a converted Jew baptised at Toledo in 1085), and suppressed by the Jews for 230 years, before its 'translation' from Arabic into Latin by Alphonsus Bonihominis, a Dominican monk. Bonihominis is probably the forger--Collector's description.
Armorial bookplate of Lord North on front pastedown. Signature of J. R. Spensley on front pastedown and with his bookplate on rear pastedown. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 25 October 1944.
Old half-leather with patterned paper covered boards. Watermark on the end flyleaf could be dated to the middle of the 17th century.
Judaism
Jews
Antisemitism
Apologetics
Christianity and other religions
Italy Rome.