[Epistolae contra Judeorum errores]
Publisher: Eucharius Silber
Published: 1480
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Judaism; Controversial literature; Early works to 1800; Jews; Conversion to Christianity; Antisemitism; Apologetics; History; Christianity and other religions; Middle Ages; Christianity; Interfaith relations
Other titles: Incipit epistola qua[m] misit Rabi Samuel Israelita ordundus de ciuitate; Liber de adventu Messiae praeterito
Description: 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.
Notes: Author attribution, title 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 (a1, c8 blank).

Capital spaces with guide letters.

Paper boards; blank a1 used by a later reader for a vocabulary list. The Friedlaender copy, with his bookplate (sale, Christies NY, 23 April 2001, lot 113).

Goff, S-106

ISTC (online), is00106000

Harman, M. Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (1979), 850

Bibliotheca Fictiva: The Arthur & Janet Freeman Collection of Literary & Historical Forgery.