![SAMUEL, Rabbi (fl. 12th-century). Epistola contra Judaeorum errores. Based on the translation from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis (d.1353). - PONTIUS PILATE (attributed to). Epistola Tiberio. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2002/CKS/2002_CKS_06711_0178_000(051544).jpg?w=1)
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SAMUEL, Rabbi (fl. 12th-century). Epistola contra Judaeorum errores. Based on the translation from the Arabic by Alphonsus Boni Hominis (d.1353). - PONTIUS PILATE (attributed to). Epistola Tiberio. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475].
Chancery 4° (207 x 144mm). Collation: [1-28 3-46] (1/1 blank, 1/2 Samuel letter, 4/5v spurious letter of Pilate, 4/6b blank). 28 leaves. 28 lines. Type: 1:97R. 2- to 4-line initial spaces, one with guide-letter, 8 pages rubricated in red. Early 20th-century red morocco gilt by Capé with monogram SCC at centre of sides. Provenance: SCC (binding) -- George Dunn, Wooley Hall, near Maidenhead (bookplate).
SECOND EDITION of one of the most widely disseminated medieval antisemitic tracts. The printed editions are based on the 14th-century Latin version by the Spanish Dominican Alfonso Buenhombre of a 12th-century Arabic treatise, whose author, 'Rabbi Samuel' (Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas), was a convert from Judaism to Islam. Buenhombre adapted the text into a Christian, rather than Muslim, polemic, and it circulated widely in numerous vernacular languages as well as Latin. The present edition was printed at the second press at Sant'Orso. H *14263; BMC VII, 1028 (IA. 30920); Polain(B) 3435; Goff S-104.
Chancery 4° (207 x 144mm). Collation: [1-28 3-46] (1/1 blank, 1/2 Samuel letter, 4/5v spurious letter of Pilate, 4/6b blank). 28 leaves. 28 lines. Type: 1:97R. 2- to 4-line initial spaces, one with guide-letter, 8 pages rubricated in red. Early 20th-century red morocco gilt by Capé with monogram SCC at centre of sides. Provenance: SCC (binding) -- George Dunn, Wooley Hall, near Maidenhead (bookplate).
SECOND EDITION of one of the most widely disseminated medieval antisemitic tracts. The printed editions are based on the 14th-century Latin version by the Spanish Dominican Alfonso Buenhombre of a 12th-century Arabic treatise, whose author, 'Rabbi Samuel' (Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas), was a convert from Judaism to Islam. Buenhombre adapted the text into a Christian, rather than Muslim, polemic, and it circulated widely in numerous vernacular languages as well as Latin. The present edition was printed at the second press at Sant'Orso. H *14263; BMC VII, 1028 (IA. 30920); Polain(B) 3435; Goff S-104.
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