Josephus, Flavius (37AD-100AD) - DE BELLO JUDAICO In Libros Septem +DE ANTIQUITATE JUDEORUM (On the Jewish War in Seven Books + Antiquities of the Jews)

Venice, Raynaldus de Noviomago 1481 Coloured fine pen-line 3 colour initials with gutter decoration and lower margin ditto. . Folio later half vellum with gilt coloured leather labels marbled sides, armorial bookplate on pastedown "Wm. Read" RED & BLUE INITIALS throughout with a few decorations and tails, minor contempory annotations throughout. Contemporary marginalia a2-10 b8-o8+p5 collates as Bodleian copy. This is the 5th edition of Rufinus Aquileiensis' translation, but the 1st Venetian edition. It was the first time all of Josephus`s translated works appeared in one volume, and all subsequent volumes offered only slight revisions of this text. *Book one (originally writen in AD 75) is Josephus`s account of the first Roman-Jewish war (AD 66-73), in which he fought against Rome until capture by the future emperor Vespasian. Book two (writen originally during Domitian`s reign in AD94)is a twenty volume work recounting the history of the Jews from the Hebrew Bible up to the aformentioned Roman-Jewish war. Both books are listed as among the most famous of Jewish historiography.

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