Josephus, FlaviusDe bello judaico [French] De la bataille judaique.
Analysis of content:
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Seysselo?, Claudius de: [Translator's dedication to] Charles VIII, King of France. Incipit: ‘[O]u nom de dieu tout pussant a la louenge de sa tresglorieuse mere . . .’
a2v ‘Table'.
a8v Josephus, Flavius: De la bataille judaique. Translated by Claudius de Seysselo(?) ‘Prologue'.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam bellum quod cum populo romano gessere Iudei omnium maximum etcetera. [P]ource dit Iosephus que la guerre et bataille que porterent les iuifs . . . Comme Anthiocus surnomme Epiphanes subiuga Hierusalem, et commence ou latin Cum gentes iudeorum inter se dissiderent etcetera. [O]u temps que en la terre de Syrie le roy Ptholomeus sixziesme auoit guerre auecques Anthiocus vne grande et merueilleuse sedicion sourdit entre les iuifs . . . fina miserablement ses iours . . .’
Imprint:
Paris: Antoine Vérard, [after 7 Dec. 1492]. Folio.
Collation:
a–e8 f6 g–z A–I8 K6 L4. Woodcuts.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ij00489000
HC 9459 = H 9458;
Goff J‑489;
BMC VIII 78;
Pr 8423;
Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. l, no. 250; CIBN J‑314; Hillard 1164; Macfarlane 21; Sheppard 6250. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in Translation.
LCN: 14485433
Copies:
J-225(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf L4. Leaf a1 backed.
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century calf, with marbled pastedowns, red-edged leaves, a nd red silk book-mark.
Size: 365 × 270 × 57 mm.
Size of leaf: 357 × 263 mm.
Initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Edward Sheppard (1734-1813)(?); armorial book-plate: see Howe, Book Plates, 26687.
Thomas Rodd (1796-1849).
Richard Heber (1773-1833); note on the front endleaf: ‘Oct. 1819. Rodd Jr. 2. 12. 6'; stamp: ‘Bibliotheca Heberiana'; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 3303.
Purchased for £2. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 15.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.29.
