Incipit Dialogus qui uocatur Scrutiniu[m] Scriptura[rum] / co[m]positus per reuerendu[m] patre[m] Dominu[m] Paulu[m] de S[an]cta Maria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pablo de Santa Maria, Bishop of Burgos, approximately 1351-1435, author.

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

Contributor:

Schall, Johann, active 1475-1479, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Scrutinium scripturarum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.

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

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Mantua -- 1475.

Penn Provenance:

Yale University. Library (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

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

Rabinowitz, Louis M. (Louis Mayer), 1887-1957 (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[270] leaves (leaves [142] and [242]) blanks ; 30 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Incipit dialogus qui vocatur Scrutinium Scripturarum

Fingerprint:

isud urc- e-us tefo (C) 1475 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Mantua] : Et cum diligenti emenda per me Iohannem Schallus atriu[m] doctore[m] Mantue impressus, sub annis prefati domi[ni] nostri Ihesu [christ]i. M.cccc.lxxv. [1475]

Contents:

Scrutinium scripturarum / Pablo de Santa Maria

Epistola contra Judaeorum errores / attributed to Samuel Marochitanus ; written by Alfonsus Bonihominis.

Notes:

Title from incipit of text on leaf [a]1r which reads: Incipit Dialogus qui uocatur Scrutiniu[m] Scriptura[rum] 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 postillam Nicolai de Lira. Anno Domini. M.CCCC.xxxiiij. Anno uero etatis sue Lxxxj.

Imprint information from colophon on leaf N10r which reads: Nota [que] iste libellus uidetur fuisse occultat[us] per iudeos ultra ducentos annos [et] triginta. quod connicitur ex hoc. quia cu[m] iste doctor Samuel scriberet Rabbi Ysaac. solum vixit fluxisse mille annos a tem[por]e quo [per] Titum expugnante[m] sanctam ciuitate[m] iudei su[n]t dispersi. [et] ideo uidetur [que] statim post illos mille annos captiuitatis [et] dispersio[n]is iudeorum. iste liber fuerit conscriptus. Sed iudei uidentes [que] [per] tot euidentia testimonia prophetaru[m]. ipsoru[m] errores [con]uincerentur. istum libru[m] tanto tem[por]e ut dictu[m] est occultaueru[n]t. ne [per] catholicios fideles ipso[rum] errores possent argui per contenta in hoc libello. Qui translatus est sub annis d[omi]ni.M.cc.xxxix. Et cum diligenti emenda per me Iohannem Schallus atriu[m] doctore[m] Mantue impressus. sub annis prefati domi[ni] nostri Ihesu [christ]i. M.cccc.lxxv. regnante ibidem felicissime Illustrissimo d[omi]no D[omi]no Lodouico de Gonzaga Marchione Secundo.

Chancery folio. Leaf [a]2r: 39 lines; area of text: 191 x 110 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. "The first quire is unsigned; in quires b-g the signatures have been added by hand-stamping far down in the lower right-hand corner and have probably been trimmed away in many copies; in the rest of the book the signatures are in normal position immediately below the text."--Walsh.

Signatures: [a]¹⁰ b⁸ c-o¹⁰/⁸ p-r⁸ A-K¹⁰/⁸ L-N¹⁰ (leaves r8 and L10 blanks).

"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.

Colophon on leaf L9r reads: 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 / Johannes doctor artis Apollinee. Anno domini Millesimo quadrigentesimoseptuagesimoquinto.

Caption title on leaf M1r reads: Tractatulus multum utilis ad co[n]uincendum iudeos de errore suo. quem habent de messia adhuc uenturo. [et] obseruantia legis mosaice.

Incipit on leaf M2r reads: Incipit Epistola quam misit Rabbi Samuel Israhelita oriundus de ciuitate regis Morochoru[m] ad Rab. Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge. que e[st] in subiulmeta in predicto regno. in anno domini Millesimo. sed translata de arabico in latinum per fratrem Alfonsum boni hominis hispanum ordinis predicatorum Quam translatione[m] fecit. Anno domini Millesimotricentesimotricesimooctauo. tempore pontificatus domini Benedicte pape duodecimi. Que epistola cuius sit edit[i]onis [et] ad quid ualeat. prohemiu[m] ipsius epistole [et] narratio eius plenius declarabu[n]t cum titulo qui est talis.

Caption title on leaf M2r reads: Epistola qua[m] scripsit magister Samuel Israhelita oriundus de ciuitate regis Morochiani ad Rabbi Ysaac m[a]g[ist]r[u]m sinagoge que est in subiulmeta in regno predicto.

Explicit on leaf N9v reads: Explicit Epistola Rabbi Samuelis quam scripsit ad Rabbi Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: leaf L10 (blank) and gatherings M-N (Epistola contra Judaeorum errores) wanting.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 285 x 197 mm.

CJS Incunable copy without rubrication.

CJS Incunable copy has manuscript correction to text on leaf d4r; manuscript marginal note on leaf A9v; manuscript marks on leaves C6r-D3v.

CJS Incunable copy has provenance bookplate of Yale University Library ("Gift of LOUIS M. RABINOWITZ") on front pastedown; bookplate of Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning with typescript provenance note ("Gift--Louis M. Rabinowitz") on front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy bound in full modern calf(?); 5 raised, gold tooled bands (now much worn) on spine; author's name and title stamped in gold on spine; imprint information (date only visible) stamped in gold at foot of spine; manuscript fore-edge title ("SC[R]V TINIVS SCRIPTVRA RVM"); marbled endpapers; faded yellow, red and blue(?) silk marker.

CJS Incunable copy: tail outer corner of leaves [a]1, [a]9 excised and replaced with a blank leaf; tail outer corner of leaf L9 excised and the remainder mounted on a blank leaf; leaves L1-L2 detached; some leaves mended at inner margin without damage to text.

Cited in:

Goff P-204

BM 15th cent. VII, page 933 (IB.30652)

GW M29967

BN cat. des incun. P-73

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

Contains:

Samuel, Marochitanus. Epistola contra Judaeorum errores.

OCLC:

27065909