Iosephi ludei historiographi uiri clarissimi prologus in libros antiquitatum uiginti incipit foeliciter
By: et de Graeco in Latinum traductos per uenerabilem presbyterum Ruffinum Aquileiensem uirum doctissimum
Contributors: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410; Squarciafico, Girolamo; Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Ioannem uercelensem
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Impressum Veneciis [Venice]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Jews; History; Early works to 1800; History of Biblical events; Judaism; Apologetic works; Bible
Other titles: Josephi Judei historiographi viri clarissimi prologus in libros antiquitatum viginti incipit foeliciter; Iosephi Antiquitatis Iudaicae liber primus incipit foeliciter; Josephi Antiquitatis Judicae liber primus incipit foeliciter; Iosephi Mathathiae filii Haebrei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De bello Iudaico in libros septem prologus per Ruffinum Aquilensem traductos; Josephi mathathiae filii Haebrei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De bello Judaico in libros septem prologus per Ruffinum Aquilensem traductos
Work titles: Antiquitates Judaicae
Notes: Title from incipit on leaf a2.

Translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.

Imprint from colophon on leaf M5 verso.

Antiquitates Judaica is printed from De Novimagio's 1481 edition, as indicated on leaf y5: "Hieronimus squarzaficus alexandrinus Raynaldo de nouimaio impressorie artis op[u]s."

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸ [long s]⁸ s-x⁸ y⁶ A-L⁸ M⁶ (a1, y6, A1, and M6 blank).

The leaves L1 through M5 verso contains the text Contra Apionem.

Capital spaces; registers on leaves y5 and M5 verso.

LC copy bound with De bello Judaico (gatherings A-M) first. Wanting a1 and M6 (blanks). Marginal ms. annotation in multiple hands, most extensively in De bello Judaico. Ms. bibliographic description on free front endpaper. Large capital Q mounted over capital space on leaf A2. Has inscription: Ad Vsum P[at]ris F[re?]res Joseph Marie à Candeasio Dicati: ab eodem Conuentus Im[m]aculat[a]e Conceptionis [?].

Goff J-486

Hain-Copinger 9454*

GW M15153

BM 15th cent., V, p. 415-416 (IB. 23112)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ij00486000