![]() JEW WHO PROMOTEE BLOOD LIBEL TRIALIn the summer of 1475 Sixtus IV learned of the rapid trial and executions of the Jews of Trent, which seemed to impinge on his papal prerogatives. “The two supplementary quires, printed here for the first time, contain a lengthy legal responsum by Pavinis regarding the supposed ritual murder of the boy Simon of Trent. As the description from Sotheby’s states: Johannes de Pavinis was not a disinterested observer, but a legate sent by Pope Sixtus to rule on Hinderbach’s actions that seemingly flew in the face of the pope’s orders to not hurt the Jews or prosecute ritual murder accuations. He instead went against these papal prohibitions and promoted the cult of the boy martyr, SimonĬonsilia et quaestiones (Rome, 1478), first page of Johannes de Pavinis’ treatise. There were many controversies surrounding the killing of Simon and the trial that followed, including the qustion of whether the Jews were guilty, but most Christian writing centered on legal questions about the authority of the bishop, Johannes Hinderbach, who had been ordered by the pope to leave the Jews alone. The volume was acquired because of a short treatise attached to the Consilia written by Johannes Franciscus de Pavinis, entitled Responsum de jure super controversia de puero Tridentino a Judaeis interfecto (Juridical response on the controversy of the killing of the Tridentine boy (Simon of Trent) by the Jews). Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, was purchased at auction from Sotheby’s in 2019. The new acquisition, Consilia et quaestiones : celeberrimi utrius iuris monarche dni Oldradi de Ponte de Laude… by Oldrado da Ponte (Rome: Vitus Puecher, 1478), acquired on the T. The Beinecke Library has added to its already strong collection of print materials relating to the supposed martyrdom of Simon of Trent in 1475, one of the most famous ritual murder or blood libel cases that set off a wave of vicious anti-Semitism leading to the torture, death, or forced conversion of many Jews throughout Italy and Germany. ![]()
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