Pharetra fidei contra iudeos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thibaud, de Sézanne, active 1240-1250.

Attendorn, Peter, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Pharetra fidei Catholicae.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Pharetra fidei contra judeos

Fingerprint:

o,am uso- buna meqr (C) 1499 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Peter Attendorn], [1499?]

Notes:

"Author: Theobaldus, Sub-prior O.P. in villa Parisiensi (Sheppard), also named as Theobaldus de Saxonia"--ISTC.

Title from title leaf (leaf a2r).

Imprint from ISTC.

"Also recorded as [Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, about 1488-89] and [Ulm: Johann Zainer, about 1490] and [about 1489-92] ... On the printer, see E. Voulliéme, in Aufsätze Fritz Milkau gewidmet (Leipzig, 1921) pp. 344ff. P. Amelung however assigns to Knoblochtzer at Heidelberg (cf. Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken 5 (1997) p. 61). Schreiber and Ohly-Sack assign the printing to Johann Zainer, Ulm; Schreiber dates it about 1485, and Ohly-Sack possibly about 1490. BSB-Ink dates about 1489-92"--ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 30 lines; area of text: 136 x 87 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Large historiated woodcut initial (65 x 62 mm.) on leaf a2v depicting "the Virgin and Child adored by a king, and a sibyl; the latter holds a scroll inscribed: Iam tuus regnat apollo Omnis feret o[mn]ia tellus."--BM 15th cent. Cf. Schreiber 4940.

Signatures: a-c⁶ (c6 blank).

Leaf c4v, line 7 reads: "in cesar cessasi[m] et hebraice dicitur mmmmm." A variant reads: "in cesar cessasi[m] hoc hebraice dicitur." Cf. Walsh.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: leaf c4v, line 7 reads: in cesar cessasi[m] hoc hebraice dicitur.

Leaf size: 205 x 141 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. underlines and marginal notes in brown ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1990.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full brown morocco(?); red morocco spine label with title and imprint date ("Pharetra fidei ca. 1490") stamped in gold.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf c6 (blank) wanting.

Photocopy available for public use.

Cited in:

Goff P-580

BM 15th cent. I, p. 171 (IA.2527)

GW M45805

BSB-Ink. T-141

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 293, 294

ISTC ip00578500

OCLC:

23439892