Title: L’Histoire Apostolique d’Abdias premier Evesque de Babylon institué par les Apostres, tournée d’Hebrieu en Grec par Eutrope, puis en Latin par Iule Africain aussi Evesques, & nouvellemont traduitte en nostre vulgaire
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [16], ff. 145. Signatures: a8, A-S8. a1-2 neatly restored in outer blank margin (no text loss), in C18 smooth French calf, spine gilt. Bookplate of Daniel Berditchevsky (the elder, b. 1925), Belgian poet and bibliophile.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The rare first vernacular edition of the narrative of Abdias, the (imaginary) first Bishop of Babylon, which gives a supposedly first-hand account of the Crucifixion, and the earliest peregrinations of the Disciples/Apostles (see the first [Latin] edition of 1552, by Wolfgang Lazius, Bib# 4102665/Fr# 111). Andrew Pettigrew and Malcolm Wallaby, Livres vernaculaires Franc̨ais avant 1601 (Leiden &amp; Boston, 2007) locate copies only in France (BN, Avignon [Bibliothèque Ceccano], Aix, Amiens, and Marseilles [Alcazar], and at Saint Gall and the University of Vienna.  No reprints were ensuing, but the text was extracted in part in J.-P. Migne’s ‘Patrologia cursus completus.’</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_8657928" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>