Ruffini Aquilensis traductio in Iosephum historiographu[m] clarissimum de bello Iudaico. Iosephi Mathathie filij, Hebrei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis, De antiquitate Iudeorum contra Appionem gra[m]maticum Alexandrinum.
Contributors: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410.; Squarciafico, Girolamo.; Josephus, Flavius.
Publisher: Per magistrum Raynaldum de Nouimagio Almanu[m]
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Impressum in inclyta ciuitate Venetiarum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Jews -- History -- Rebellion, 66-73; Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D; Judaism -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: De antiquitate Iudeorum contra Appionem grammaticum Alexandrinum.
Notes: Josephus' De bello Judaico and his Contra Apionem, translated from the Greek originals by Rufinus of Aquileia, edited by Girolamo Squarciafico.
No collective t.p. Titles taken from caption titles on leaves a3a and n5a.
Imprint from colophon.
Goff, H-C-R, BM, and IGI describe this incunable as either the 1st or the 2nd half of the printer's edition of the works of Josephus (disregarding the fact that neither part includes his Vita Josephi per ipsum conscripta).
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-o⁸ p⁶.
LC copy wanting the last blank. Initials alternately in red and blue; the first initial in red, blue, green, and yellow.
With: Iosephi Antiquitatis Iudaice liber primus[-xx] incipit feliciter. Imp[re]ssum Venetijs : P[er] Raynaldu[m] de Nouimagio, Mcccc deci[m]o die Maij [i.e. 10 May 1481]. Probably issued together.
Goff J-485
Hain-Copinger-Reichling 9453
BM 15th cent., V, p. 256 (IB.20662)
IGI 5389