Robert Grosseteste and the History of the Jews 1934. This book is titled “Robert Grosseteste And The Jews", written by Lee M. Friedman and published in Cambridge at the Harvard University Press in 1934 and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press in Boston, and it’s a first edition because there is a just a single date on the copyright page and no other printings. The book has the title in gilt lettering on the spine, maroon boards, blank endpapers, a half-title, the title page, a printer’s page, a one-page list of Illustrations, 26 pages of text and Notes that run to page 34, with some uncut French-fold pages in the Notes, and the top edge is gilt. The illustration plates include two facsimile pages from a manuscript from a 1658 edition of "De Cessatione Legalium”, as well as a picture of a Domus Conversorum, a house for new Christian converts. Lee M. Friedman (1871 - 1957) was a noted authority on American Jewish history, and his book delves into the connection between Jews and anti-semitism in medieval England. Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168 - 1253) was Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253 and an important figure in English ecclesiastical life; far from being benign and enlightened with respect to Jews, Grosseteste was an extremist with an anti-Jewish animus, so quite interesting for scholars of Christian and Jewish faiths. Born in Suffolk, he was also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, and he was revered as a saint after he died, but attempts to canonize him failed because of his opposition to Pope Innocent IV. Grosseteste was also considered the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought or the scientific method in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, in modern England. The book measures 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. wide and is in very good condition. The binding is tight and the pages, text, and plates are very clean, the gilt is bright, there’s a tad of rubbing at the heel and crown of the spine, at the tips, and in a couple of spots along the bottom edge of the boards and that’s it. See Bill McBride’s” A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions.” #203 #1582