De antiquitate Judaica
Subtitle: De bello Judaico
By: [Translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus]
Contributors: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410, translator; Squarciafico, Girolamo, editor; Josephus, Flavius; Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Per Joannem uercellensem
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Impressum Veneciis [Venice]
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Jews; Early works to 1800; History
Work titles: Antiquitates Judaicae
Notes: Signatures: a¹⁰ (a₁ blank), b-r⁸, [s]⁸, s-x⁸, y⁶ (y₆ blank), A-L⁸ (A₁- blank), M⁶ (M₆ blank).

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Incipit (leaf a2): Iosephi Iudei Historiographi uiri clarissimi prologus in libros antiquitatum uiginti incipit foeliciter et de graeco in latinum traductos per uenerabilem presbyterum Ruffinum Aquileiensem uirum doctissimum.

Incipit (leaf A2): Iosephi Mathathiae Filii Haebrei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De Bello Iudaic in libros septem prologus per Ruffinum Aquilensem traductos.

Pell Ms 6755 (6718); CIBN J-310; Hillard 1163; Polain(B) 4498; IDL 1823; IGI 5386; IBP 3280; Sajó-Soltész 1978; Sallander 2287; Madsen 2344; Oates 2011; Sheppard 4111; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1043; Pr 5118.

Burke Library copy: Inscription on front free endpaper: Liber b[ea]tissime v[ir]g[in]is Marie mo[na]sterij in Huisborch per D[omi]n[e]m Joh[ann]em abb[a]tem e[m]ptus Anno d[omi]ni mdxcviii⁰. Libri Iosephi Hist. Antiquitatu[m] Judaice, de Bello Judaico...

Burke Library copy: Rubricated throughout, with large initials in red and blue.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; metal clasps intact; bosses removed; manuscript waste in spine.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-486

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M15153

Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00486000

Hain-Copinger *9454

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

Gatch. Van Ess catalog H-14