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INCUNABULA SAMUEL, Rabbi, attributed to. Rationes breves magni rabi Samuelis. 1493
SAMUEL, Rabbi, attributed to. Rationes breves magni rabi Samuelis. Large woodcut of scholar and pupils on title. [24] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 192x134 mm, Jansenist-style crimson morocco by Riviere & Son, partial hairline crack in front joint; contents washed, bookseller's catalogue description tipped to front pastedown. (Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1493)
- Notes: Later edition of Epistola contra Judaeorum errores, a widely disseminated anti-Judaic tract supposedly written in Arabic by a Moroccan apostate Jew at the beginning of the 11th century and translated into Latin by the Spanish Dominican Alphonsus Bonihominis in the 14th century, but now considered more likely to have been composed by the latter. The first printed edition appeared in 1474. BMC I, 279; Goff S110; EJ II, 607.
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