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Iosephi Machaciae filii Hebraei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De bello Iudaico.

Accession number
PML 471
Creator
Josephus, Flavius.
Object title

Iosephi Machaciae filii Hebraei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De bello Iudaico.

Published

Impressum i[n] inclyta ciuitate Veronæ : per Magistrum Petru[m] Maufer Gallicum [for Innocens Ziletus], Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxx octauo Kalendas Ianuarii [25 December 1480]

Description

[214] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r (signed a1).
Imprint from colophon, leaf D5v, reads: "Impressum i[n] inclyta ciuitate Veronæ per Magistrum Petru[m] Maufer Gallicum. Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxx octauo Kalendas Ianuarii: Pontifice maximo Sixto quarto & illustrissimo Veneto[rum] duce Ioa[n]ne Mocenigo." Preceded by a short quotation from St. Jerome, headed "Hieronymus ad magnu[m] oratore[m] urbis Romæ".
Printed in type 6:111R.
Collation: [1²]; a¹⁰ b⁸ c⁶ d-k⁸ kk⁸ l-x⁸ y⁶; A-C⁸ D⁶: 214 leaves, leaf a1 blank, leaf a2 signed "a1."
Paper format: Chancery folio
"Iosephi Machaciae filii Hebraei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De antiquitate Iudaeorum contra Appionem grammaticum Alexandrinum": leaves A1r-D5v.
Translated by Rufus Aquiliensis, edited by Ludovicus Cendrata. Polain cites Hieronymus Squarzaficus as editor.
An unsigned bifolium, usually bound at the front of the book, contains a prefatory letter by the editor, addressed to Antonius Donatus and dated 30 November 1480, followed by 3 elegiac distichs by Hieronymus Donatus addressed to Ludovicus Cendrata, 11 elegiac distichs of Johannes Antonius Pantheus, and 7 hendecasyllables of Innocens Ziletus.
"The only book signed by Maufer at Verona. It was printed at the expense of Innocens Ziletus, who had already published a book at Pogliano."--Pollard, Hawkins.
1 column of 36 lines, 199 x 121 mm. Capital spaces on a2r, a4r (with guide-letter), and A1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding
18th/19th-century stained calf over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; yellow edges.
Variant title
Iosephi Machaciae filii Hebraei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De bello Ivdaico.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, one silver (leaf a2r) and red lombards. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Frederic John Cuthbert (1801-1850), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Sir Edward Sullivan (1852-1928), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 19 May 1890, lot 3557; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and signature (front fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896 and then sold off the duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: o/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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Department