细节
LATIN MANUSCRIPT - Liber contra judeos nomine Talmut.
Breslau, 1458
4o (197 x 143 mm). 9 leaves on paper, COMPLETE, 11 28, ca. 34 lines written in dark brown ink in German cursive script, frame-ruled in brown ink, justification: 168 x 114 mm, rubrics in brown ink in large script. Formerly part of a Sammelband. (First leaf cropped touching text and with fragment of paper torn from lower corner causing loss to several words.) Disbound, in modern cloth box.
TEXT
An apparently unpublished treatise cast in the form of a dialogue between Jew and a Christian cleric. Although most of the fifteen points addressed by the text concern aspects of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the Messiah, circumcision, baptism, the Incarnation and the passion of Christ, two sections discuss the law of Moses and the Talmud. In 1453 the preaching of Giovanni Capistrano in Breslau had led to pogroms, the execution of some 40 Jews and the expulsion of the Jews from the city. The composition, or copying, of the present polemic, dated to 1458 by the inscription at the end of the text, is presumably related to those events.
PROVENANCE
Breslau, church of Corpus Christi of the order of St. John of Jerusalem ("Liber ecclesie corporis christi wratislaviensis ordinis sancti Johannis", inscription on ff. 8v-9r).
Breslau, 1458
4o (197 x 143 mm). 9 leaves on paper, COMPLETE, 11 28, ca. 34 lines written in dark brown ink in German cursive script, frame-ruled in brown ink, justification: 168 x 114 mm, rubrics in brown ink in large script. Formerly part of a Sammelband. (First leaf cropped touching text and with fragment of paper torn from lower corner causing loss to several words.) Disbound, in modern cloth box.
TEXT
An apparently unpublished treatise cast in the form of a dialogue between Jew and a Christian cleric. Although most of the fifteen points addressed by the text concern aspects of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the Messiah, circumcision, baptism, the Incarnation and the passion of Christ, two sections discuss the law of Moses and the Talmud. In 1453 the preaching of Giovanni Capistrano in Breslau had led to pogroms, the execution of some 40 Jews and the expulsion of the Jews from the city. The composition, or copying, of the present polemic, dated to 1458 by the inscription at the end of the text, is presumably related to those events.
PROVENANCE
Breslau, church of Corpus Christi of the order of St. John of Jerusalem ("Liber ecclesie corporis christi wratislaviensis ordinis sancti Johannis", inscription on ff. 8v-9r).