Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Judaica 19

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This bibliography was compiled by Johanna Rodda.
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W.H. Bond and C.U. Faye, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. MS cited p. 235.
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Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.

Monika Marsmann. Die Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaak. Untersuchung und Edition, Diss. München 1971, p. 152f. (Sigle f1). HOLLIS
Karl Heinz Keller. “Irmhart Öser.” Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon. Wolfgang Stammler et al. Vol. 7. 1997. pp. 84-89.
On the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century German translations of the Epistle. Listed under the name of its author. HOLLIS

Karl Heinz Keller. Textgemeinschaften im Überlieferungsvorgang.Fallstudie aus der Überlieferung der ‘Epistel Rabbi Samuels an Rabbi Isaac’ in der volkssprachlichen Übertragung Irmhart Ösers. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 527, Göppingen 1992, p. 25. HOLLIS

Ora Limor. “The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel of Morocco: A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics.” In Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa. Contra Iudaeos: ancient and medieval polemics between Christians and Jews. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1996, 177-194.
Contains a description of Samuel of Morocco’s anti-Jewish tract and a biographical sketch of the author. Focuses on the textual transmission of the work in extant manuscripts and early incunabula. Available online; Harvard PIN required. (Link) HOLLIS

Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters.(website) Accessed 29 October 2009.
Listed in a census of medieval German manuscripts. Found under “Gesamtverzeichnis Handschriften, Cambridge, Mass.” Internet Link
Cross-reference under “Gesamtverzeichnis Autoren/Werke: Öser, Irmhart: 'Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaac.'” Lists other manuscripts in the tradition. Internet Link