Rationes breves magni Rabi Samuelis, Judei nati, sed de Judaismo ad fides Catholicam converti. ["A Brief Account of the Great Rabbi Samuel, Born Jewish, but Converted from Judaism to the Catholic Faith."]

(SAMUEL, RABBI)

Heinrich Quentell

Cologne

1493

Woodcut of scholar and students on title. Gothic type. Red lettering in initials and elsewhere applied by hand. Ample margins. Some Latin marginalia.

BMC I, 279; Goff S110

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 first printed edition appeared in 1474. See Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, Vol. V (1961) p. 89, no. 67; EJ Vol. II, 607.