Beśorat Matai 'ad ha-yom hazeh khmosah 'im ha-Yehudim ... Euangelium Hebraicum Matthaei, recèns è Iudaeorum penetralibus erutum, cum interpretatione Latina, ad vulgatam quoad fieri potuit, accommodata.
Shem Tov Ibn Shapruṭ (1375-1380)
Category
Books
Date
1555
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3037987
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 pts. in 1 v. ([7], 137, [16] p.; 68 leaves) ; 8vo. Running number: 2623. Provenance: manuscript inscription (bibliographic reference) in eighteenth-century[?] hand on recto of second front fly-leaf: "It is said yt Pantaenus, contemporary with Tertullian, found the Gospel of Saint Mathew in the Hebrew tongue among some Christian[s] in India, yt had been left there by St. Bartholomew, which therefore was of equall authority with an original ... [one illegible word] of Reason: of Christianity vol. 2. p. 9". Manuscript inscription on verso of second front fly-leaf facing title page: "Matthei" [i.e. catalogue entry note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on title page: "Pio doctoq[ue] ac virtutibus ornatissimo viro D. Iacobo Crucio amico meo perquam carissimo, in amicitiae a teneris inchoatae huc vsq[ue] continuata minqua[m]q[ue] postmodu[m] interiturae certum indicem hoc miniscul[u]m levidense sed ingentis amoris testimonium, D Dedi Daniel Pipardus Antverpianus anno 1601" [i.e. gift inscription from Daniël Pipart [Daniel Pipardus] (1583-1651), born in Antwerp, minister of the Walloon church in Kampen, probably to Jacobus Cruquius [Jacobus Crucius, Jacobus de la Croix] (1579-1655), born in Antwerp, theologian and pastor of the Walloon church in Delft]. Binding: sixteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf; sewn on four double leather supports; triple blind fillet border and panel, gilt foliate cornerpiece and centrepiece stamps. Rebacked and repaired in tan sheepskin (pencil note on front fly-leaf: "repaired at Cambridge 1956"). Manuscript waste on vellum at front and rear: black letter, red and blue decoration and letters.
Makers and roles
Shem Tov Ibn Shapruṭ (1375-1380), author Jean Du Tillet (d.1570) Bishop of Meaux, editor Jean Mercier (d.1570, editor Martin Le Jeune (fl.1548-1584), printer