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Tractatus contra iudeos & Sarracenos. Zelus Christi : manuscript, 1492

Title
Tractatus contra iudeos & Sarracenos. Zelus Christi : manuscript, 1492

Alternative Title: Tractatus Zelus Christi

Alternative Title: Zelus Christi
Creator / Contributor
La Cavalleria, Petrus de.
Place of Origin
Italy
Date
1492
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 114 leaves, bound : vellum ; 16 cm.
print
Subjects
Abstract
Treatise on Christian religion addressed to Jews and Saracenes; it contains one of the earliest references to the Jewish kabbalah in a Christian book.
Genre
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1450-1500.
Early works to 1800
Notes
Written in hybrida script with colored initials in green (some blank spaces left for initials) and headings in pale rose and red; ruled for 2 columns of 31 lines, justified 10 x 7 cm.
Title from incipit.
Written at Naples by Frater Jacobus de Vratislavia for Nicolaus de Monte Murro.
"Explicit libellus qui zelus christi nuncupatur compilatus per egregium virum dominum Petrum de la cavalaria legum doctorem in lingua latina caldaca arabica et hebrea eruditissimum de civitate Cesaraugusta in quo Judeo et Sarraceno fidem Jesu Christi probat esse veram quem ego frater Jacobus de Vratislavia teutonus scripsi pro meo preceptore egregio magistro Nicolao de Monte Murro verum ex quodam exemplari incorrectissimo, anno ab incarnatione Jesu Christi dei et domini nostri nonagesimo secundo supra M et cccc : Neapoli" (f. 114r).
Bound in mid-19th-cent. Italian green leather.
In a tray case, 18 cm.
MS Riant 39. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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