[A compendious and moste marueylous history of the latter times of the Jewes commune weale, beginnyng where the Byble or Scriptures leave, and continuyng to the vtter subuersion and laste destruction of the countrey and people
By: wrytten in Hebrewe by Ioseph Ben Gorion ... ; translated into Englyshe by Peter Morwyng ...
Contributors: Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen; Jugge, Richard, approximately 1514-1577; Morwen, Peter, 1530?-1573?; Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Edition: And nowe newly corrected and amended by the sayde translatour].
Publisher: By Rycharde Jugge ...
Published: 1561
Place of publication: Imprinted at London ...]
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 260
Work titles: Josippon English
Notes: Title, ed. statement, and imprint from NUC.

Peter Morwen's translation of Sebastian Münster's Latin version of Abraham ben David's abstract of a disputed work known as Josippon or Yosippon, sometimes listed under the pseudonym Joseph ben Gorion--Cf. NUC. originally published in London, 1558.

Leaves printed on both sides in black letter; also contains one word in Hebrew type in the outer margin of leaf A2 (recto).

Leaves lxxi, lxxii, clxx, clxxi duplicated in numbering; leaves lxxix, lxxx, clix omitted in numbering.

Signatures: [dagger]⁸ A-Y⁸ 2A-2K⁸ 2L⁴.

OONL copy imperfect: T.p., gatherings D and X, and leaves C3, Y1 and Y8 wanting; in addition, leaves signed [dagger]2, [dagger]8, A1, and 2L4 replaced in facsim. Leaves B3, C1-2, C4 torn, with some loss of text. Ms. notes in contemporary hand. Leaves lxxiii, cxlix, xlvii, clxxi, clxxxx, clxxxxi misnumbered xxliii, clxix, cvlii, clxix, cc, cxxxxi.

Includes bibliographical references (BLC, v. 168, pages 327 (C.049.a.12) ; NUC pre-1956, v. 679, p. 131; STC (2nd ed.) 14796).