Harvard University, MS Riant 39

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10967

Shelfmark:

MS Riant 39

Title:

Tractatus contra iudeos & Sarracenos; Zelus Christi

Author:

La Cavalleria, Petrus de

Petrus de la Cavalleria WIKIDATA

Date:

1492.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 114 leaves, bound : vellum ; 16 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Nicolaus, Monte Murro

Nicolaus de Monte Murro WIKIDATA

Riant, comte 1836-1888

Paul Riant WIKIDATA

Note:

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...
Bound in mid-19th-cent. Italian green leather.
In a tray case, 18 cm.
Belonged to Paul Edouard Didier, comte de Riant.
Gift of J. Randolph Coolidge and Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1899.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Missions to Jews

Missions to Muslims

Cabala and Christianity

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097887860203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:14297858

Holding Institution:

Harvard University