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INCUNABULA.
35
roses within circles in corners, on the under side a similar pattern with only two
borders, on front-cover the original vellum title-label, two clasps (the leather of the
under side damaged and rubbed). Frs. 2000.—
Hain* 12385. Proctor 7449. Brit. Mus. Cat. HI, 715.
Of high rarity like all specimens of Ruppel’s press at Basel, the first press established
in Switzerland. Berthold Ruppel, of Hanau, was one of the original workmen ofjGutenberg, and
figured as a witness in the lawsuit between Fust and Gutenberg in 1455. Printing was introduced
by him into Basel not later than 1468, this being the date found in a copy of the Moralia in Job,
now in the Bibl. Nation, at Paris.
This is a very fine copy, with large margins and almost uncut, of the rare and beautifully
printed book, which was written by Guillaume de Peyraud, a French theologian and arch-
bishop (?) of Lyons (died c. 1255). A few small wormholes at beginning and at end. Very In-
teresting binding.
No copy In U. S. A. according to Census.
87 PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA, Bishop of Burgos. Dialogus Pauli et Sauli contra
Judaeos, sive Scrutinium Scripturarum. Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 1478.
Fol. Gothic letter, 39 lines, 218 unn. 11. of which 1. 72 and 218 are blank,
without sign., capital-spaces. Printed in red and blank. With the printer’s
device of Schoeffer at end printed in red. Original wooden boards,
back covered with blind stamped brown calf, adorned with four ornate borders
formed by ragged staffs enwreathed with foliage and a Holy Lamb within a rect-
angle (slightly rubbed). Frs. 1800.—
Hain (without seeing it) -Cop. 10766. Proctor 114. Brit. Mus. Cat. I, p. 34.
Fine product from this famous press, nicely printed with the small
type first used as the text type of Part II of the Grammatica of Brunner in
1468. The heading of the first text leaf, the full colophon and the printer’s
device are printed in red.
The author of this often printed diatribe against the Jews was Solomon Levi, a con-
verted Jew, known as Paulus de Sancta Maria. He was one of the most passionate apostates
against his former brethren. A former Rabbi, and a pillar of orthodoxy, on intimate terms with
the great Talmudists of the age, he joined the Church, studied Christian theology, and quickly
rose to the high position of Archbishop of Carthagena, and then to that of Privy-Councillor of
King Henry III. of Castille, and tutor of the infant Juan II. He devoted his great literary talents
and mightly intellect to calumniate Jews and Judaism, and he used his influence to exclude his
former coreligionists from every political office. Paul had gone to Paris to study, and then
visited London, sending a Hebrew satire on Purim to Don Meir Alguades from that city. In 1406
he became Keeper of the Royal Seal, subsequently a member of the Regency of Castille, and
Archbishop of Burgos. The chief object of the edict which he drafted as Chancellor of the King-
dom and which was promulgated in the name of the Regent at Valladolid in 1412, was the con-
version of the Jews. This law, which consisted of 24 articles, was designed to separate the Jews
entirely from the Christians, to paralyse their commerce, to humiliate them and to expose them
to contempt, requiring them either to live within the close quarters of their Ghetto or to accept
baptism. Impelled by his hatred of the Jews und Judaism, Paul, in the year preceding his death,
composed this Dialogus Contra Judaeos, which subsequently served as a source for Alfonso de
Spina and other Spanish writers hostile to Jews. (See Jewish Encyclopaedia).
On the blank of the last leaf, on the blank leaf 218 and on 3 added leaves is written a
rather extensive register, dated at end: A° dni Mcccc xcix.
Very large and clean copy, old marginal notes, a few small wormholes chiefly in blank
margins.
Reproduction of the Colophon see next page.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
3*
35
roses within circles in corners, on the under side a similar pattern with only two
borders, on front-cover the original vellum title-label, two clasps (the leather of the
under side damaged and rubbed). Frs. 2000.—
Hain* 12385. Proctor 7449. Brit. Mus. Cat. HI, 715.
Of high rarity like all specimens of Ruppel’s press at Basel, the first press established
in Switzerland. Berthold Ruppel, of Hanau, was one of the original workmen ofjGutenberg, and
figured as a witness in the lawsuit between Fust and Gutenberg in 1455. Printing was introduced
by him into Basel not later than 1468, this being the date found in a copy of the Moralia in Job,
now in the Bibl. Nation, at Paris.
This is a very fine copy, with large margins and almost uncut, of the rare and beautifully
printed book, which was written by Guillaume de Peyraud, a French theologian and arch-
bishop (?) of Lyons (died c. 1255). A few small wormholes at beginning and at end. Very In-
teresting binding.
No copy In U. S. A. according to Census.
87 PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA, Bishop of Burgos. Dialogus Pauli et Sauli contra
Judaeos, sive Scrutinium Scripturarum. Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 1478.
Fol. Gothic letter, 39 lines, 218 unn. 11. of which 1. 72 and 218 are blank,
without sign., capital-spaces. Printed in red and blank. With the printer’s
device of Schoeffer at end printed in red. Original wooden boards,
back covered with blind stamped brown calf, adorned with four ornate borders
formed by ragged staffs enwreathed with foliage and a Holy Lamb within a rect-
angle (slightly rubbed). Frs. 1800.—
Hain (without seeing it) -Cop. 10766. Proctor 114. Brit. Mus. Cat. I, p. 34.
Fine product from this famous press, nicely printed with the small
type first used as the text type of Part II of the Grammatica of Brunner in
1468. The heading of the first text leaf, the full colophon and the printer’s
device are printed in red.
The author of this often printed diatribe against the Jews was Solomon Levi, a con-
verted Jew, known as Paulus de Sancta Maria. He was one of the most passionate apostates
against his former brethren. A former Rabbi, and a pillar of orthodoxy, on intimate terms with
the great Talmudists of the age, he joined the Church, studied Christian theology, and quickly
rose to the high position of Archbishop of Carthagena, and then to that of Privy-Councillor of
King Henry III. of Castille, and tutor of the infant Juan II. He devoted his great literary talents
and mightly intellect to calumniate Jews and Judaism, and he used his influence to exclude his
former coreligionists from every political office. Paul had gone to Paris to study, and then
visited London, sending a Hebrew satire on Purim to Don Meir Alguades from that city. In 1406
he became Keeper of the Royal Seal, subsequently a member of the Regency of Castille, and
Archbishop of Burgos. The chief object of the edict which he drafted as Chancellor of the King-
dom and which was promulgated in the name of the Regent at Valladolid in 1412, was the con-
version of the Jews. This law, which consisted of 24 articles, was designed to separate the Jews
entirely from the Christians, to paralyse their commerce, to humiliate them and to expose them
to contempt, requiring them either to live within the close quarters of their Ghetto or to accept
baptism. Impelled by his hatred of the Jews und Judaism, Paul, in the year preceding his death,
composed this Dialogus Contra Judaeos, which subsequently served as a source for Alfonso de
Spina and other Spanish writers hostile to Jews. (See Jewish Encyclopaedia).
On the blank of the last leaf, on the blank leaf 218 and on 3 added leaves is written a
rather extensive register, dated at end: A° dni Mcccc xcix.
Very large and clean copy, old marginal notes, a few small wormholes chiefly in blank
margins.
Reproduction of the Colophon see next page.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
3*
