JOSEPHUS, Flavius.
£6,950 · Offered by Sokol Books
Folio. ll. (iv) 886 [i] (xvi). Roman letter. Woodcut printer s device to t-p. Woodcut initials. Contemp. probably English but possibly Dutch blindstamped calf, central panel formed of double floriated roll (not in Oldham), fillets, remains of clasps and corner supports, ms. inscription to upper board mostly faded, rebacked, edges stained red, ms. edge title. Autograph to front flyleaf 1622 of Petrus van Spoelberch with purchase note Inveteratus xxviii st[uiver?] , and note to lower corner, praepositurus, some inscriptions lost through ink burning, C17th ms. annotations likely in the same hand, some in Hebrew, small sheet with Dutch inscription laid in at index. C19th inscription to t-p, Dulac. Very light browning to index and to margins of a few ll., a very good, clean, wide margined copy. Rare sixth Froben edition of Josephus s history of the Jewish people in Latin, the most famous and influential work of Hellenistic Jewish history, edited by the German scholar Sigismundus Gelenius (1497-1554). It was first published in 1524 and followed by Froben s Greek editio princeps in 1544. Gelenius used Greek manuscripts to significantly update the existing Latin version, traditionally attributed to Rufinus of Aquileia. Also included is Josephus s autobiography, his history of the First Jewish Revolt of AD 66-70 against the Romans, his defence of Judaism against the Egyptian historian Apion, and his De Imperio Rationis, an account of the martyrdom of the seven Maccabee brothers and th
- Binding: Hardcover
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