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[JUDAICA-CABALA] PORCHETUS, SALVATICUS. Victoria Porcheti adversus impios Hebr[a]eos in qua tum ex sacris literis, tum ex dictis Talmud, ac Caballistaru[m], et alioru[m] omniu[m] authoru[m], quos Hebr[a]ei recipiu[n]t, monstratur veritas catholic[a]e fidei.
Paris: [Guillaume Des Palins and Gilles de Gourmont] for Francois Regnault, 1520. 18th century French red morocco gilt. 10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (26.75 x 19 cm); xciiii pp. Light binding wear, a few leaves with an old damp stain in one corner, in all a pleasant copy of a very rare book.
Porchetus, fl. 1300, was a Genoese monk (and a member of one of the great Guelph families of the city). He appears to have been a Carthusian, though his biography is incomplete and uncertain, drawn from city records which record several individuals of a similar name. He is known primarily for the present anti-Semitic work, of which this is the editio princeps. It presents the case of the Church against the Jews, drawing on Biblical, Talmudic and Cabbalistic literature. The title-page, with Regnault's elephant device, is most attractive. This copy sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1948, and no copy appears to have been offered subsequently.
C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library
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