[De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico].

Accession number:

PML 121

Author:

Josephus, Flavius.

Published:

[Augsburg] : Johann Schüssler, 28 June 1470; 23 August 1470.

Description:

[288] leaves ; 41 x 29.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon I (leaf [20]/8v): Josephi historiographi viri clarissimi. libri antiquitatum numero vigi[n]ti. per Johannem schüsler. Civem Augustensem finiunt feliciter non scriptorum qui dem arte. sed qua nostra tandem etas dotata est. impressoria s[e]c[undum] exarati. Anno a nativitate currente dominica. Mille: simoquadringentesimoseptuagesimo. kale[n]das vero iulias quarto.
Colophon II (leaf [29]/8v): Josephi historiographi viri clarissimi. libri de bello judaico septem. finiunt feliciter. per. Joha[n]nem schüssler civem Augustensem impressi. kalendas septembris decimo. Anno vero a p[ar]tu virginis salutifero .Millesimoq[ua]dringentesimo septuagesimo.
Printed in two parts, dated 28 June and 23 August 1470, respectively.
Printed in type 1:117G.
Collation: [1-3¹² 4-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18-19¹⁰ 20⁸; 21-27¹⁰ 28-29⁸]: 288 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
Translation ascribed to Rufinus Aquileiensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.8 x 29.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern full brown blind-tooled goatskin in a pastiche of an early Italian style over boards (41 x 29.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. Previous 18th-century sprinkled calf binding by Simier housed in box with book.

Variant Title:

De antiquitate Judaicae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated initial with foliate border decoration (Augsburg style, leaf [1]/2r), red and green alternating major initials with alternate color filigree penwork, red lombards and paragraph marks, L-brackets around chapter numbers in text (Schüssler shop rubrication). Annotations: Alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures at gutter edge in De antiquitate Judaica and outer edge in De bello Judaico, where they start over at 'a'. Minimal contemporary notations in several hands. Manuscript headlines from Bk. XIII of Antiquitates to Ch. XXVI of Bello, 17th century.

Provenance:

Fürstenfeld Abbey (Bavaria), Cistercian, inscription: Monasterij Fürstenveld, 17th century (leaf [1]/2r); Louis-Jean-Nicolas Monmerqué, bibliographic notes (fly leaf of previous binding); his sale, Paris, 12 May 1851, lot 1953; Joseph Renard (1822-1882) of Lyon, bookplate and bibliographic notes (front pastedown and fly leaf of previous binding); his sale 21 March 1881, lot 1176, sold for 125 francs; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from John Wiley & Sons (New York), Sept. 1882, price code: do-; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books