Incipit Epistola quam misit Rabi Samuel Israhelita oriundus de ciuitate regis Morochorum ad Rabi Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge que e[st] i[n] subiulmeta i[n] predicto regno in a[n]no d[omi]ni M[illesim]o / S[ed] tra[n]slata de Hebreo uel de Arabico i[n] Latinu[m] p[er] fratre[m] Alfunsium Boni Ho[min]is Hispanu[m] ordinis p[re]dicato[rum] ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alfonsus Bonihominis, Bishop of Marrakech, -1353, author.

Contributor:

Samuel, Marochitanus, attributed name.

Johannes, de Reno, active 1473-1482, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Epistola Samuelis Maroccani. Latin

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Jews--Conversion to Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Apologetics--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Santorso -- 1475.

Penn Provenance:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Library (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952 (donor) (CJS Incunable copy)

Annenberg Research Institute. Library (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[28] leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Incipit Epistola qvam misit Rabi Samvel Israhelita orivndvs de civitate regis Morochorvm ad Rabi Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge que e[st] in subiulmeta i[n] predicto regno in a[n]no d[omi]ni M[illesim]o

Epistola qua[m] scripsit m[a]g[iste]r Samuel Israhelita oriu[n]d[us] de ciuitate regis Morochiani ad Raby Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge que e[st] in subiulmeta i[n] regno predicto

Goff title: Epistola contra Judaeorum errores

Fingerprint:

rier uste tqde hali (C) 1475 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Santorso] : [Johannes de Reno], [approximately 1475]

Contents:

Epistola qua[m] scripsit m[a]g[iste]r Samuel Israhelita oriu[n]d[us] de ciuitate regis Morochiani ad Raby Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge que e[st] in subiulmeta i[n] regno predicto

Epistola quam misit Poncius Pilatus Tiberio imperatori Romano.

Notes:

"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)"--ISTC.

Title from incipit on leaf [A]2r.

Caption title on leaf [A]2r reads: Titulus epistole. Epistola qua[m] scripsit m[a]g[iste]r Samuel Israhelita oriu[n]d[us] de ciuitate regis Morochiani ad Raby Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge que e[st] in subiulmeta i[n] regno predicto.

Imprint from ISTC. "Proctor and Polain assigned to Vicenza"--ISTC. (GW gives place of printing: Vicenza or Santorso(?).)

Chancery quarto. Leaf [A]3v: 28 lines; area of text: 135 x 83 mm. Initial spaces, a few with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [A]-[B]⁸ [C]-[D]⁶ (leaf [A]1 blank).

Explicit on leaf [D]5v reads: Explicit Epistola Rabbi Samuelis quam scripsit ad Rabbi Ysaac magistrum synagoge.

"Sequitur Epistola quam misit Poncius Pilatus Tiberio imperatori Romano"--Leaf [D]5v.

Local Notes:

RBR#3333.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 204 x 142 mm.

CJS Incunable copy without rubrication; a few initials supplied in brown ink by a reader.

CJS Incunable copy has early manuscript note ("3 Incipit Epistola Rabbi Samuelis Qua[m] scripsit ad Rabbi ysaac Magistru[m] Synagoge") at head of leaf [A]1r; a few signature marks supplied in early manuscript in tail outer corner of rectos of leaves.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING") with typescript gift note ("Gift of Doctor A.S.W. Rosenbach") on front pastedown; stamp ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on leaves [A]2r and [D]6r.

CJS Incunable copy has partially illegible dated 15th-century manuscript purchase note ("Rome 1479 Empt[us] [...]ternj[?] 2 et tercernj[?] 2[...]") at head of leaf [A]1r.

CJS Incunable copy bound in decorative paper boards; manuscript spine title; spine damaged.

Cited in:

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-104

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum VII, page 1028 (IA.30920)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke M39841

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog A-440

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), S-54

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library 3483

Incunabula short title catalogue is00104000

Contains:

Letter of Pontius Pilate.

OCLC:

21316623