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).
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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