Epistola Rabbi Samuelis Israhelite missa ad Rabbi Ysaac magistru[m] Synagoge in subiulmeta ciuitate regis Morochorum
Subtitle: qua iudeus ille catecuminus. aridam iudeoru[m] d[e] Messia spem stimulans, ipsos, necnon eoru[m] posteros : sua spe super testimonijs legis et prophetaru[m] de venturo Messia esse frustratos iam miran-do tande[m] timendo et expauesce[n]do : apertissime demonstrat : annexa est etiam in fine Pontij pilati, d[e] indubitata hiesu resurrectione, epistola ad Tiberium imperatorem
Contributors: Hochfeder, Kaspar, active 1490-1517, printer; Alfonsus Bonihominis, Bishop of Marrakech, -1353; Austria. Bundersdenkmalamt
Publisher: [Caspar Hochfeder]
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Nuremberg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Apologetics; Early works to 1800; Christianity; Controversial literature; Judaism; Relations
Other titles: Epistola Rabbi Samuelis Israhelitae missa ad Rabbi Ysaac magistrum synagogae in Subiulmeta civitate regis Morochorum; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Epistola contra Judaeorum errores
Notes: Title from title page on leaf a1 recto.

Printer's name and date of printing from colophon (d4 recto): Impressa est Epistola Rabbi Samuelis: vna cu[m] te-stimonijs duodecim patriar-charu[m] Epistolaq[ue] pontij Pi-lati huic a[n]nexis. arte literaria p[er]-famati Casparis hochfeders nurenbergensis. decimanona Martij. Anno saluatoris n[ost]ri .M.cccc.xcviij. Laus deo.

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' (Encyclopaedia Judaica).

Signatures: a-ćœ d́þ (d4=blank)

Chancery quarto; a3 recto: 35 lines, 155 x 99 mm; types: 107(a) (title), 88 (text); initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, 478

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S113

Incunabula short title catalogue, is00113000

cataloged 09092019 jm

condition reviewed 20190910 cl
Table of contents: title: Title page, a1 recto; title: [Preface], incipit "[I]Ncipit Epistola qua[m] misit Rabbi Samuel Jsrahelita", a1 verso; title: [Pseudo-] Rabbi Samuel [i.e. Alphonsus Boni Hominis]. Epistola contra Judaeorum errores, in Latin, a1 verso-d2 recto; title: [Prophetiae de venturo Christo Patriarcharum, Sibyllae, Prophetarum], caption "Ad hec veniu[n]t duodecim patriarcharu[m] testimonia. argumentu[m] samuelis in p[re]missa sua epistola co[n]fortantia. no[n] omit-tenda: qui patriarche de ve[n]tu-ro [christ]o loquentes. apertissime eius diui[ni]tate[m] significaueru[n]t", d2 verso-d3 verso; title: [Pseudo-] Pontius Pilatus. [Epistola ad Tiberium], caption "Sequitur epistola qua[m] misit po[n]tius pilatus Tiberio imperatori romano", d3 verso-d4 recto; title: colophon, d4 recto.