[Iosephvs Hebraicvs div desideratvs, et nvnc ex Constantinopolitano exemplari iuxta Hebraismum opera Sebastiani Munsteri uersus, & annotationibus atque collationibus illustratus ... haec lector si tibi arridere uiderimus, dabimus & bellum Iudaicum seu excidium Ierosolymitanum à Iosepho Hebraicè conscriptum]
Contributors: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552; Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579
Publisher: Apvd Henricvm Petrvm
Published: 1541
Place of publication: Basileae]
Language: heb; lat
Number of pages: 178
Other titles: Yosef ben Goriyon
Work titles: Josippon Latin & Hebrew
Notes: Title, imprint, and all details on the Latin text from Prijs.

Includes Sebastian Münster's Latin translation of Josippon, followed by the vocalized Hebrew text of the work which is based, not on the 1510 Constantinople ed. (as stated in the title), but on the editio princeps printed ca. 1480 in Mantua--Cf. Prijs.

Hebrew text has own t.p., whose romanized title reads: Yosef ben Goriyon. These words are printed with a woodblock, as are 3 other initial words in the text--Prijs. The work was often attributed to one "Joseph ben Gorion."

Colophon of Latin text (p. 178) reads: Basileae apvd Henricvs Petrvm, mense Martio, anno M.D. XLI.

Printer's device at end of Hebrew text, verso of leaf signed L6.

Signatures: A-L⁶ (Hebrew text); A⁶ a⁴ b-n⁶ o-p⁴ q⁶ (Latin text).

Includes bibliographical references (BM STC German, 1455-1600, pages 463 (1938.g.6) ; Cowley, A.E. Hebrew printed books in the Bodleian Library, p. 332; New York Public Library. Dict'y cat. of the Jewish coll., v. 6, p. 4850; NUC pre-1956, v. 679, p. 132; Prijs, J. Die Balser hebräischen Drucke (1492-1866), no. 60).