Flavius Josephus. De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico. Venice: Albertinus Vercellensis for [the heirs of] Octav...

Josephus, Flavius. De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico. Venice: Albertinus Vercellensis for [the heirs of] Octavianus Scotus, 1499, 23 October. Folio. a8, b6, A-Y8, Z6, 2A-2I8, 2K8 [lacking 2K 1,2,3,7,&8. [28], ccliii, cclvii-cclix. 271 [of 276] leaves. Lacks ff 254-6, 260 (colophon) and final blank. 18th c. vellum-backed paper-boards, worn at edges; t.p. blank top 1/3 of page replaced,early ink Latin notes, soiled; B1 stained; 2H8r old signature inked out, 2I8r old note; 2K4-6 loose (probably from another copy.) Numerous woodcut initials. Flavius Josephus (b. 37/8 A.D.), a Jewish priest and Pharisee, was put in command of the Jewish resistance in Galilee at the time of revolt against Rome, but was captured at Jotapata; his life was spared when he predicted that Vespasian would become emperor. His works are an indispensable source on first century Jewish life and history: the Jewish Antiquities explaining to the Romans the history of the Jews from Creation to the revolt of A.D.66, the Jewish Wars explaining the history of the wars from the Maccabean revolt to 66 A.D. to the Mesopotamian Jews.

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