Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar : A Study with Five Editions and Translations
Leiden: Brill, 2014. First edition. Octavo. ix, (3), 690pp. Indices and 69 page bibliography. Red/brown over gray boards, spine lettered in yellow. A fine, as new copy.
Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar opens up a previously unknown chapter in the history of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange during the Middle Ages by presenting critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar. (OCLC)
In the sixteenth century Simon Munster put together a 200 page volume entitled "Kalendarium Hebraicum" which had been "newly brought to light from the inner sanctuaries of the Hebrews." To these, he attached a whole series of texts dealing with the complicated rules of the Jewish calendar, its astronomical foundations, and its feast-day cycles. (from the Introduction)
Contents: Preface; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Note; Signs Used in the Critical Apparatus; Introduction; Chapter 1. Contexts and Pretexts; 1. The Jewish Calendar: History and Structure; 2. The Easter Computus and the Challenge of Calendar Reform; 3. The Christian Encounter with the Jewish Calendar: Antiquity to Twelfth Century; Chapter 2. The Anonymous Liber erarum; 1. Structure and Contents; 2. Origin and Date; 3. The Manuscripts; 4. The Edition; Liber erarum; Chapter 3. Robert of Leicester's Treatise on the Hebrew Calendar (1294); 1. Franciscan Hebraism and the Challenge of Biblical Chronology2. Manuscripts, Date, and Authorship; 3. Structure and Contents; 4. The Edition; Robertus de Leycestria: Tractatus de compoto Hebreorum aptato ad kalendarium; Chapter 4. Nicholas Trevet's Compotus Hebreorum (1310); 1. Introduction; 2. Context, Contents, and Sources; 3. The Edition; Nicolaus Trevet: Compotus Hebreorum; Chapter 5. The Computus Iudaicus of 1342; 1. Introduction; 2. The Manuscripts; 3. Structure and Contents; 4. Context and Transmission; 5. Transliteration of Hebrew Terms; 6. The Tables; 7. Major Textual Changes.; 8. The Commentaries9. Authorship and Date; 10. The Users; 11. The Edition; Computus Judaicus; Commentarius in Computum Judaicum; Chapter 6. Hermann Zoest's Calendarium Hebraicum Novum (1436); 1. The Jewish Calendar in the Work of Hermann Zoest; 2. Calendarium Hebraicum Novum: Structure and Contents; 3. The Manuscripts; 4. The Edition; Hermannus Zoestius: Calendarium Hebraicum Novum; 5. Chronological Commentary on Hermann's Calendarium; Appendix I. John of Pulchro Rivo on the Jewish Calendar; Appendix II. Notes on Further Texts and Manuscripts; Plates; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts. (OCLC)
Volume 4 of the Brill series: "Time, Astronomy, and Calendars" (TAC). Item #51637
ISBN: 9789004272446
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