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Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Riant 39

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Harvard University Library
Library
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Shelfmark
  • MS Riant 39
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Date
  • 1492
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Tractatus Zelus Christi
  • Zelus Christi
  • Tractatus contra iudeos & Sarracenos Zelus Christi : manuscript, 1492
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Description

  • Physical Description:
    114 leaves, bound : vellum ; 16 cm.

    Summary:
    Treatise on Christian religion addressed to Jews and Saracenes; it contains one of the earliest references to the Jewish kabbalah in a Christian book.

    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.

    Subjects:
    Cabala and Christianity -- Early works to 1800
    Missions to Jews -- Early works to 1800
    Missions to Muslims -- Early works to 1800

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1450-1500.

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    • Italie (Venise ?).
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    • Most likely northern Italy
    • Probably northern Italy (Verona?)
    • [Italy]
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • Italy [Ancona or Pesaro?], [copied by Joseph ben Nissim Fermi?]
    • [Italy] copied by Samson ben Elijah Halfan
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    • Fols. 2-4: [Italy]
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    • Italy, North?, Siena?
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  • Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library). Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Riant 39
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