Iosephi historiog[ra]phi viri clarissimi prologus in libros antiquitatum vigi[n]ti incipit feliciter
Contributors: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410
Publisher: per Ioha[n]nem Schüszler ciuem Augustensem impressi.
Published: 1470
Place of publication: Augsburg]
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Jews; History; Early works to 1800; Religious life and customs; Judaism; Apologetic works; Juifs; Histoire; Ouvrages avant 1800; Judaïsme; Ouvrages apologétiques
Other titles: Josephi historiographi viri clarissimi prologus in libros antiquitatum viginti incipit feliciter; De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico
Work titles: De bello Judaico
Notes: Signatures: [a-c¹² d-q¹° r⁸ s-t¹° v⁸ A-G¹° H-I⁸]. The first leaf is blank ; leaf [a2] is a cancel.

Title from incipit at head of [a2r] (leaf [2r]).

Imprint details from second colophon on [I8v] (leaf [288v]). In two parts; part I dated 28 June and part II dated 23 Aug. 1470.

Includes Contra Apionem (De antiquitate Judaica): [a2r] (leaf [2r]) - [v8v] ([202v]).

Translated by Rufinus of Aquileia -- see ISTC (according to Bodleian 15th century, translation is traditionally ascribed to Rufinus).

"In the De antiquitate two kinds of paper are mainly used, one watermarked with a pair of scales, the other with a D and cross, and the printer has taken great care to use the D paper for the inside sheets of each quire and the scales paper only for the outer (or occasionally the outer and second) sheet. In the De Judaico Bello no scales paper is used ..."--BM 15th cent.

Initial spaces.

ISTC, ij00481000

Goff, J481

BM 15th cent., II, p. 327

Bodleian 15th cent., J-218