![SAMUEL, Rabbi (fl. 12th century). Epistola contra Judaeorum errores, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis (d.1353). [With:] PONTIUS PILATUS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Tiberium. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0105_001(samuel_rabbi_epistola_contra_judaeorum_errores_translated_from_the_ara054937).jpg?w=1)
![SAMUEL, Rabbi (fl. 12th century). Epistola contra Judaeorum errores, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis (d.1353). [With:] PONTIUS PILATUS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Tiberium. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0105_002(samuel_rabbi_epistola_contra_judaeorum_errores_translated_from_the_ara073249).jpg?w=1)
![SAMUEL, Rabbi (fl. 12th century). Epistola contra Judaeorum errores, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis (d.1353). [With:] PONTIUS PILATUS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Tiberium. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0105_000(samuel_rabbi_epistola_contra_judaeorum_errores_translated_from_the_ara073259).jpg?w=1)
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SAMUEL, Rabbi (fl. 12th century). Epistola contra Judaeorum errores, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis (d.1353). [With:] PONTIUS PILATUS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Tiberium. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475].
Rare early edition of one of the most widely disseminated medieval anti-Semitic tracts. The text of the printed editions is based on the 14th-century Latin translation by the Spanish Dominican Alfonso Buenhombre of a 12th-century Arabic treatise, Ifham al-Yahud, whose author, Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas, was a convert from Judaism to Islam. The work was first printed in 1474, and 20 incunable editions survive, including translations into German, Italian and Spanish. H 14263*; GW M39841; BMC VII 1028; Bod-inc S-047; BSB-Ink A-440; ISTC is00104000; Goff S-104.
Chancery quarto (200 x 142mm). 28 leaves, with the blank, initials in red, rubricated (faint waterstaining in fore-margin). 19th-century half sheep, red morocco title-label gilt on upper board (lightly rubbed, a few minor nicks to leather). Provenance: titled in Latin in an early hand on endpaper – 19th-century bibliographic inscription – Georg Kloss, Frankfurt (1787-1854; bookplate).
Rare early edition of one of the most widely disseminated medieval anti-Semitic tracts. The text of the printed editions is based on the 14th-century Latin translation by the Spanish Dominican Alfonso Buenhombre of a 12th-century Arabic treatise, Ifham al-Yahud, whose author, Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas, was a convert from Judaism to Islam. The work was first printed in 1474, and 20 incunable editions survive, including translations into German, Italian and Spanish. H 14263*; GW M39841; BMC VII 1028; Bod-inc S-047; BSB-Ink A-440; ISTC is00104000; Goff S-104.
Chancery quarto (200 x 142mm). 28 leaves, with the blank, initials in red, rubricated (faint waterstaining in fore-margin). 19th-century half sheep, red morocco title-label gilt on upper board (lightly rubbed, a few minor nicks to leather). Provenance: titled in Latin in an early hand on endpaper – 19th-century bibliographic inscription – Georg Kloss, Frankfurt (1787-1854; bookplate).
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