Manuscript on vellum and paper of 1) Treatise on the Koran. 2) Ricoldus de Monte Crucis O.P. (Ricoldo da Montecroce, d. 1320), Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum (Confutatio Alcorani). 3) Anonymous treatise against the Koran in the form of letters exchanged between two friends, a Moslem and a Christian. 4) Bonacursius de Bononia O.P. (s. XIII2), De erroribus Graecorum. 5) A short history of the oecumenical councils.
Description:
Binding: Original binding. Blind-tooled calfskin over bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Brass?? bosses., Script: Probably copied by one hand, who starts writing Humanistica Textualis but gradually changes into a rapid Gothico-Humanistica., and Some errors in modern foliation.
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics--Early works to 1800, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library