Petrus, de Pennis, active 1330-1342
Italian Dominican friar, who was the author of a tract against the Talmud, entitled Dialogus contra Judaeos.
- HMML ID
- 737362442872
- PURL
- LC name
- Petrus, de Pennis, active 1330-1342
- HMML name
- Petrus, de Pennis, active 1330-1342
- Library of Congress
- VIAF
Variants
- De Pennis, Petrus
- Pennis, Petrus de
- Petrus Aprutinus
- Petrus, de Penna
- Petrus, de Pennis
Name elements
- Given names
- Petrus
Personal information
- Activity start
- 1330
- Activity end
- 1342
- Centuries
- 14th century CE
- Gender
- Males
- Associated countries
- Occupations
- Fields of activity
- Languages
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- Affiliation
General notes
- Description
- Dates of birth/death unknown, probably born in Italy; Dominican friar, the name 'Pennis' possibly refers to the town Penna in Calabria; Italian origin based on Latin vocab; "author of a tract against the Talmud (Liber contra Judaeos, nomine Talamoth), a treatise on the incarnate Word (Tractatus de notitia Verbi incarnate), and a Libellus de locis ultramarinis, a largely derivative description of the history and geography of the Holy Land based in good part on Jacques de Vitry"
- Citations
- John Tolan, "Petrus de Pennis," Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 5: 1350-1500 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 609.
- Description
- Petrus de Pennis; author in the 14th century; possibly the same as Petrucius de Pennis ep. Scalensis; work list includes: Tract. de notitia Verbi incarnati; Libellus de locis ultramarinis quem composuit fr. Petrus de Pennis ord. fr. Pred; Tract. contra Iudaeos nomine Thalamoth, Tract. contra Alcoranum
- Citations
- Thomas Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, vol. 3 (Rome: Ad S. Sabinae, 1980), 249, https://www.academia.edu/24987212.
- Description
- OP; Contra Alchoranum; Libellus de locis ultramarinis; ca. um 1330/42
- Citations
- "Petrus, de Pennis," CERL Thesaurus, accessed August 9, 2023, https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00290761.
Preferred citation
"Petrus, de Pennis, active 1330-1342." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified August 09, 2023. https://w3id.org/haf/person/737362442872
Change notes
- Date added
- 2023-05-17
- Last edited
- 2023-08-09