Incipit Dialogus qui uocatur Scrutiniu[m] scriptura[rum]
By: co[m]positus per reuerendu[m] patrem Dominu[m] Paulu[m] de s[an]cta Maria, Magistru[m] in theologia, Episcopu[m] Burgense[m], Archicancellariu[m] serenissimi Principis domini Iohannis regis Castelle et Legionis ; Quem co[m]posuit post additiones per eum compositas ad postilla[m] Nicolai de Lira, Anno domini. M CCCCxxxiiij, Anno uero etatis sue Lxxxj
Contributors: Alfonsus Bonihominis, Bishop of Marrakech, -1353; Schall, Johann, active 1475-1479, printer; Samuel, Marochitanus; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per me Iohannem Schallus ...
Published: 1475
Place of publication: Mantue
Language: lat
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Conversion to Christianity; Jews; Bible
Other titles: Dialogus qui vocatur Scrutinium scripturarum; Dialogus qui uocatur Scrutiniu[m] scripturarum; Incipit Dialogus qui vocatur Scrutinium scripturarum
Work titles: Scrutinium scripturarum
Notes: "Tractatulus multum utilis ad co[n]uincendum Iudeos de errore suo quem habent de Messia adhuc uenturo [et] obseruantia legis Mosaice" (i.e. the "Epistola contra Judaeorum errores" of Samuel Marochianus): leaves M1r-N9v.

Alphonsus Boni Hominis claims only to translate the Epistola of Rabbi Samuel but "it seems he himself was the author, drawing largely from another tract in Arabic"; cf. Encyclopaedia Judaica.

First colophon (L9r): Eterne laudes sint regi. luce superna / Qui dedit hoc cunctis. quod reseratur opus. / Hoc Iudeorum pandens enigmata. [et] artes / Mentis aberrantum diluit omne malum. / Tempore quo gaudet Lodouico principe Mantos / Facta uigent cuius splendida per Latium. / Hoc opus impressit rerum scrutinia Schallus / Iohannes doctor artis Apollinee. / .Anno domini millesimo quadringtesimoseptuagesimoquinto.

Second colophon (N9v-N10r): Explicit epistola Rabbi Samuelis quam scripsit ad Rabbi Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge. Nota q[uod] iste libellus uidetur fuisse occultat[us] per Iudeos ultra ducentos annos [et] triginta ... Qui translatus est sub annis d[omi]ni. M.cc.xxxix. Et cum diligenti emenda per me Iohannem Schallus artiu[m] doctore[m] Mantue impressus sub annis prefati domi[ni] nostri Jhesu [Christ]i. M.cccc.lxxv. regnante ibidem felicissime illustrissimo d[omi]no d[omi]no Lodouico de Gonzaga marchione secundo.

Signatures: [a]¹⁰ b-o⁸/¹⁰ p-r⁸ A-K¹⁰/⁸ L-N¹⁰ (r8 and L10 blank).

Capital spaces.

LC copy imperfect: wanting all after leaf L9. Initials and paragraph marks in red and blue. Leaves o1 and p8 detached, laid in.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry P-204

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 10765

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 10765

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M29967

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, p. 933 (IB. 30652)

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, entry ip00204000

LC copy has fragments of 2 bookplates mounted on p. [2] of cover.