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Author Nothaft, C. Philipp E.

Title Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar : a Study with Five Editions and Translations
Published Boston ; Leiden : Brill, 2014

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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
Summary 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
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Subject Robert, of Leicester, active 13th century. Tractatus de compoto Hebreorum aptato ad kalendarium
Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328. Compotus Hebrerorum
Zoest, Hermann, active 15th century. Calendarium hebraicum novum
SUBJECT Liber erarum
Computis Iudaicus
Tractatus de compoto Hebreorum aptato ad kalendarium (Robert, of Leicester) fast
Liber erarum fast
Compotus Hebrerorum (Trivet, Nicholas) fast
Calendarium hebraicum novum (Zoest, Hermann) fast
Subject Jewish calendar -- Early works to 1800
SCIENCE -- Time.
Jewish calendar
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004274129
900427412X
9781306858359
1306858356