TRACTATUS DE JUDEORUM ET CHRISTIANORUM; Communione et Conversatione

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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author

(PAPAL EDICT)

printer

H. Ariminensis, c.

Place

Strassburg

Publication

1476

Description

Second Incunable edition. Hand painted rubricated initiials throughout. The Lee. M. Friedman Copy, with his bookplate on front paste-down

references

Goff J-494; Hain-Copinger 9465; GKW 7259

summary

This rare, and important text reissues the anti-Jewish edicts of Pope Sixtus IV, first declared in 1470. Includes prohibiting Christians from eating or drinking with Jews, employing Jewish midwives and or Jewish physicians. Indeed, the year 1476 was a most vicious year for the Jews of Italy, suffering appalling massacres

ff. (15). Dampstained, few marginal repairs. Lengthy manuscript description of this edition written and initialed by G. P. Winship, 192-, on Harvard Library letterhead tipped in. Recent vellum, vellum clasps. Folio

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