Incipit Dialogus qui uocatur Scrutiniu[m] scriptura[rum] / co[m]positus per reuerendu[m] patrem Dominu[m] Paulu[m] de s[an]cta Maria, Magistru[m] in theologia, Episcopu[m] Burgense[m], Archicancellariu[m] serenissimi Principis domini Iohannis regis Castelle et Legionis ; Quem co[m]posuit post additiones per eum compositas ad postilla[m] Nicolai de Lira, Anno domini. M CCCCxxxiiij, Anno uero etatis sue Lxxxj.

Accession number: 
PML 468
Author: 
Pablo de Santa Maria, Bishop of Burgos, approximately 1351-1435.
Published: 
Mantue : Per me Iohannem Schallus ..., sub annis prefati domi[ni] nostri Jhesu [Christ]i Mcccclxxv [1475]
Description: 
[270] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [a]1r).
First colophon (leaf L9r): Eterne laudes sint regi. luce superna / Qui dedit hoc cunctis. quod reseratur opus. / Hoc Iudeorum pandens enigmata. [et] artes / Mentis aberrantum diluit omne malum. / Tempore quo gaudet Lodouico principe Mantos / Facta uigent cuius splendida per Latium. / Hoc opus impressit rerum scrutinia Schallus / Iohannes doctor artis Apollinee. / .Anno domini millesimo quadringtesimoseptuagesimoquinto.
Second colophon (leaves N9v-N10r): Explicit epistola Rabbi Samuelis quam scripsit ad Rabbi Ysaac magistru[m] sinagoge. Nota q[uod] iste libellus uidetur fuisse occultat[us] per Iudeos ultra ducentos annos [et] triginta ... Qui translatus est sub annis d[omi]ni. M.cc.xxxix. Et cum diligenti emenda per me Iohannem Schallus artiu[m] doctore[m] Mantue impressus sub annis prefati domi[ni] nostri Jhesu [Christ]i. M.cccc.lxxv. regnante ibidem felicissime illustrissimo d[omi]no d[omi]no Lodouico de Gonzaga marchione secundo.
Alphonsus Boni Hominis claims only to translate the Epistola of Rabbi Samuel but "it seems he himself was the author, drawing largely from another tract in Arabic"; cf. Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Printed in Schallus's types 1:98G and 2:130G.
Signatures: [a]¹⁰ b-o⁸/¹⁰ p-r⁸; A-K¹⁰/⁸ L¹⁰; N¹⁰: 270 leaves, leaves r8 and L10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
"Tractatulus multum utilis ad co[n]uincendum Iudeos de errore suo quem habent de Messia adhuc uenturo [et] obseruantia legis Mosaice" (i.e. the "Epistola contra Judaeorum errores" of Samuel Marochianus): leaves M1r-N9v.
Alphonsus Boni Hominis claims only to translate the Epistola of Rabbi Samuel but "it seems he himself was the author, drawing largely from another tract in Arabic"; cf. Encyclopaedia Judaica.
1 column, 39 lines. Capital spaces, without printed guide letters.
PML copy listed under First Press in Checklist.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.5 cm.

Binding: 
Late 19th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (30.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports perhaps by the Doves Bindery (the same tools are used as on the Doves pigskin Kelmscott Chaucer binding, 1896). Earlier vellum fly leaves, with modern plain paper fly leaves. 2 clasps.
Variant Title: 

Dialogus qui vocatur Scrutinium scripturarum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, including subject headlines. The date in the second colophon is inked out (leaf N10r)

Provenance: 
Venice, Church of San Francesco della Vigna, stamp (leaf [a]1r); unidentified shelf mark (perhaps S. Francesco della Vigna): A Di Sotto Sca. I (front vellum fly leaf); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896 and then sold off the duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: l/-/- +___ (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
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Department: 
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