Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

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ab illust. doct. Petro de la Cavalleria, Hispano ex civitate Caesaraugusta, anno 1450 Venice : apud Baretium de Baretijs, 1592. Two works in one volume, quarto (225 x 160 mm), contemporary panelled vellum stamped with the initials L V M ; [68], 156; [8], 19 leaves; second work has separate title page: Aureus Rabbi Samuelis tractatus ad Isaach rabbi sinagogæ quae est in Subiulmeta in formam epistol[a]e conscriptus / qui quidem tractatus R.D. Don Martini Alfonsi Viualdi præcedentis glossatoris, ac tandem ab omni iniuria uindicatus, correctus, emendatus, iterum in lucem prodit ; both works in Latin, with commentary surrounding the text; verso of front free-endpaper with early annotation in Latin remarking on the rarity of the book, main title with old ownership inscription of B. H. Cowper and ex libris stamp (strengthened in pen) of Morris Samuels; very occasional pencilled marginalia by a later owner, main title somewhat darkened and with some underlining, two leaves of the second work with some loss of text due to old restoration, otherwise clean and sound throughout. The main work is the first edition of an important treatise on Christian religion written around 1450 by a lawyer from a converso family in Saragossa, Pedro de la Cavallería. Although addressed to both Jews and Saracenes, it is primarily directed against Judaism, and it contains one of the earliest references to the Jewish kabbalah in a Christian book (Harvard University Library). Very rare. No copy traced at auc

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