MEDIEVAL MISSIONS TO MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

[Martyrium sanctorum:] Tractatus de martyrio sanctorum. [Basel, Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim, not after 1492].

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First edition of a guide to proselytising Christianity among Muslim populations, thus then incurring risk or penalty of death (martyrdom). It includes significant quotation and discussion of the Qur’an. Our copy was in the monastic library of Buxheim Charterhouse. 

Details

One volume, 203 mm. x 150 mm. in binding, quarto, 58 unnumbered leaves, includes final blank. Woodcut first initial. Greek printing (type 83). 

Bound c.1700, possibly without endpapers, in tan half-sheep and speckled paper over boards, spine with two raised bands, brass initialed clasp (either of an old-fashioned style or reused from an older binding).

Provenance: Buxheim Charterhouse (inscription, spine label, and library stamp), occasional early underlinings possibly from this time.

Condition (textblock): occasional single wormholes, a clean, unrubricated copy. Condition (binding): rubbed and slightly worn with tear to head and tail of spine and worming to spine (mainly to top joint at tail). Binding loosening from text block at top hinge (see also break to head of text block by sig. h1). 

ISTC im00331000. GW M21464. BMC III 776.