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PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA (c.1350-1435). Scrutinium scripturarum. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 January 1478.
Chancery 2° (276 x 203mm). Collation: [1-210 312 4-1010 118 12-1710 1812 19-2110 226] (1/1 6-line heading printed in red, preface, 1/2v chapter contents, part I, distinctiones I-IV, 3/12v blank, 4/1r distinctiones V-VII, 7/10 blank, 8/1r distinctiones VIII-IX, 13/1r distinctio X-part II, distinctiones I-IV, 19/1r part II, distinctiones V-VI, 22/5r colophon and device printed in red, 22/5v-6 blank). 218 leaves. 39 lines. Schoeffer device in red at end. Type: 6:92G. 2- to 8-line initial spaces. Contemporary foliation written in headlines, MS index written in a contemporary hand on 5 leaves bound in at front. (Wormholes in first and last several quires, repaired marginal tear in 5/4.) 18th-century French red morocco, gilt triple fillet around sides, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (small nick at head of spine). Provenance: early inscription erased from first leaf -- [Duc de la Vallière (sale 1784, lot 174)] -- sold Christie's, 30 May 1986, lot 32A -- H. Legel (bookplate).
Paulus de Sancta Maria, born into a wealthy Jewish family of Burgos, converted to Christianity and rose to become Archbishop of Burgos and Lord Chancellor under King Henry of Castile. The Scrutinium scripturarum, also called the Dialogus Pauli et Sauli contra Judaeos, takes the form of a dialogue between the Jewish Saul and the Christian Paul; the second part sets out Christian dogma as a dialogue between a Master and his pupil. His early mastery of the Talmud and rabbinic texts lent his anti-Jewish writings authority, and the Scrutinium scripturarum was used as a source for later Spanish writers hostile to the Jews. This fifth edition was set from the first edition, printed by Mentelin at Strassburg not after 1470 (Goff P-201). HC 10766; BMC I, 34 (IB.220); Polain(B) 3012; Goff P-205.
Chancery 2° (276 x 203mm). Collation: [1-210 312 4-1010 118 12-1710 1812 19-2110 226] (1/1 6-line heading printed in red, preface, 1/2v chapter contents, part I, distinctiones I-IV, 3/12v blank, 4/1r distinctiones V-VII, 7/10 blank, 8/1r distinctiones VIII-IX, 13/1r distinctio X-part II, distinctiones I-IV, 19/1r part II, distinctiones V-VI, 22/5r colophon and device printed in red, 22/5v-6 blank). 218 leaves. 39 lines. Schoeffer device in red at end. Type: 6:92G. 2- to 8-line initial spaces. Contemporary foliation written in headlines, MS index written in a contemporary hand on 5 leaves bound in at front. (Wormholes in first and last several quires, repaired marginal tear in 5/4.) 18th-century French red morocco, gilt triple fillet around sides, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (small nick at head of spine). Provenance: early inscription erased from first leaf -- [Duc de la Vallière (sale 1784, lot 174)] -- sold Christie's, 30 May 1986, lot 32A -- H. Legel (bookplate).
Paulus de Sancta Maria, born into a wealthy Jewish family of Burgos, converted to Christianity and rose to become Archbishop of Burgos and Lord Chancellor under King Henry of Castile. The Scrutinium scripturarum, also called the Dialogus Pauli et Sauli contra Judaeos, takes the form of a dialogue between the Jewish Saul and the Christian Paul; the second part sets out Christian dogma as a dialogue between a Master and his pupil. His early mastery of the Talmud and rabbinic texts lent his anti-Jewish writings authority, and the Scrutinium scripturarum was used as a source for later Spanish writers hostile to the Jews. This fifth edition was set from the first edition, printed by Mentelin at Strassburg not after 1470 (Goff P-201). HC 10766; BMC I, 34 (IB.220); Polain(B) 3012; Goff P-205.
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