tij00486000

Text-inc Id:

tij00486000

Bod-inc Id:

J-223

Headings:

Josephus, Flavius Antiquitates judaicae, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Josephus, Flavius: Antiquitates judaicae. Incipit: ‘[H]istoriam conscribere disponentibus non vnam nec eandem uideo eiusdem studii causam sed multas existere . . .’ Explicit: aliud prohibemur.
2. a2v ‘Capitula'. Incipit: ‘De creatione caeli et terrae et de operibus . . .’ Each book is preceded by a table of capitula.
3. a3r Josephus, Flavius: Antiquitates judaicae. Incipit: ‘[I]n principio creauit Deus celum et terram. Sed dum terra ad aspectum non ueniret et profunditate . . .’ Blatt 122-353 (books I–V only); a differing version of the translation from the preceding editions.
4. y5r Squarzaficus, Hieronymus: ‘Vita Josephi'. Addressed to Reynaldus de Novimagio, the printer. Allenspach–Frasso 279-81.
5. A2r Josephus, Flavius: De bello judaico. Incipit: ‘[Q]voniam bellum quod cum Romanis gessere Iudei . . . [C]vm potentes iudeorum inter se dissiderent . . .’ Explicit: que scripsi habuerim coniecturam. See J‑218.
6. L1r Josephus, Flavius: De Antiquitate judaica contra Apionem. See J‑221.
7. M5v Hieronymus [Stridonensis]: [Extract from Epistolae.] Incipit: ‘Iosephus antiquitatem approbans Iudaici populi duos libros scriptos contra Apionem . . .’ Explicit: bibliothecam euoluerit. See J‑221.

Imprint:

Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 Oct. 1486. Folio.

Collation:

a¹⁰ b–x⁸ y⁶ A–L⁸ M⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ij00486000 HC *9454; Goff J‑486; BMC V 415; Pr 5118; BSB‑Ink I‑618; CIBN J‑310; Hillard 1163; Oates 2011; Rhodes 1043; Sack, Freiburg, 2162; Sheppard 4111. LCN: 14487027

Copies:

1. J-223(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves a1 and M6. Heading on a2 as Hain, not as BMC; l. 2: ‘ . . . LATI | NVM . . . PRESBYTERVM . . . AQV | ILEIENSEM . . .’ Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; yellow-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Manuscript author's name across the fore-edge and along the lower edge. Size: 315 × 210 × 42 mm. Size of leaf: 307 × 202 mm. Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a contemporary humanist hand. A few notes, also extracting key words, in two different later hands. Running chapter numbers in the upper margin of the rectos. Provenance: Würzburg, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, Inventio crucis/Sancta crux; inscription on a2r: ‘Ad Bibliothecam Fratrum Minorum Conuentualium Sancti Francisci Herbipoli.' Sotheby's sale (3 May 1832), lot 511; purchased for £0. 11. 0; see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 364; Books Purchased (1832), 13. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.6.