Incipit dialogus qui uocatur Scrutiniu[m]scriptura[rum]
By: co[m]positus per reuerendu[m] patre[m] dominu[m] Paulu[m] de s[an]cta Maria Magistru[m] in theologia. Episcopu[m] burgense[m] archicancellariu[m] serenissimi principis domini Johannis regis Castelle et Legionis. Quem composuit 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
Series: Incunabula -- BC 146
Publisher: per me Johannem Schallus [Johann Schall
Published: 1475
Place of publication: Mantue impressus [Mantua]
Language: lat
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Doctrinal Theology; Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Jews; Conversion to Christianity; Christian converts from Judaism; Bible
Other titles: Incipit dialogus qui vocatur Scrutinium scripturarum.; Scrutinium scripturarum. Add: Rabbi Samuel: Epistola contra Judaeorum errores (Tr: Alphonsus Boni Hominis)
Work titles: Scrutinium scripturarum
Notes: Title from incipit.

Imprint from second colophon: "(N9v-N10r): Explicit epistola rabbi Samuelis quam scripsit ad rabbi Ysaac magistrũ sinagoge. Nota q[uod] iste libellus uidetur fuisse occultat[us] per iuseos ultra ducentos annos & triginta ... Qui translatus est sub annis dñi. M.cc.xxxix. et cum diligenti emenda per me Johannem Schallus artiũ doctorẽ Mantue impressus sub annis prefati domĩ nostri Jhesu x̃pi. M.cccc.lxxv. regnante ibidem felicissime illustrissimo dño Dño Lodouico de Gonzaga Marchione Secundo."

First colophon (L9r): Eterne laudes sint regi. luce superna / Qui dedit hoc cuntis. quod reseratur opus. / Hoc iudeorum pandens enigmata. & artes / Mentis aberrantum diluit omne malum. / Tempore quo gaudet Lodouico principe Mantos / Facta uigent cuius splendida per Latium. / Hoc opus impressit rerum scrutinia Schallus / Johannes doctor artis Apollinee. / .Anno domini millesimo quadringtesimo-septuagesimoquinto.

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]¹⁰ b-d¹⁰ e¹⁰ f⁸ g¹⁰ h⁸ i¹⁰ k-m⁸ n¹⁰ o-r⁸ A¹⁰ B⁸ C¹⁰ D⁸ E¹⁰ F⁸ G¹⁰ H⁸ J¹⁰ K⁸ L¹⁰ (r8 blank, L9 verso blank, L10 blank, wanting)

Goff, P-204.

ISTC , ip00204000.

Hain-Copinger, 10765.

Proctor, 6898.

BMC 15th cent., VII, 933 (IB.30652)

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3340.

Bodleian Library, Oxford University [inc. d. I18.1475.1] Oxford England enk.

In Latin.