Samuel Marochitanus). Tractatus Rabby Samuelis - Errorem Iudeorum Indicans.

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 33
(ANTISEMITICA).

Samuel Marochitanus). Tractatus Rabby Samuelis - Errorem Iudeorum Indicans.

Title within architectural border depicting bramble, phoenixes and dragons. Text in Latin. Few marginal notes. pp. (64). Touch browned. Modern limp vellum. 12mo.

N.p: 1538

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
Later edition of “Epistola contra Judaeorum errores” a widely-disseminated anti-Judaic tract. Supposedly composed in Arabic by a Moroccan Jew ("Samuel Marochitanus") at the beginning of the 11th-century and translated into Latin by the Spanish Dominican Alphonsus Bonihominis in the 14th century, but now considered to have been composed by the latter. The text delineates various ways in which the Jews can be proven wrong about their religion, primarily focussing on their rejection of Jesus as a personal Messiah.