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A compendious and most marueilous historie of the latter tymes of the Iewes common weale : begynnyng where the Bible or scryptures leaue, and contynuyng to the vtter subuertion and last destruction of that countrey and people. Written in Hebrue by Ioseph Ben Gorion, a noble man of the same countrey, who saw the most things hym selfe, and was aucthour and dooer of a great parte of the same. Translated into Englysh by Peter Morwyn, of Magdalen Colledge in Oxforde.
LIBRA STC 14798.5
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 472:3.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 472:3.
- Standardized Title:
- Josippon. English. Abridgments.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D--Early works to 1800.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered leaves, 357, that is, 258 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Edition:
- And nowe newely corrected and amended by the sayde translatour.
- Other Title:
- Compendious and most marveilous historie of the latter tymes of the Jewes common weale.
- Yosippon.
- Place of Publication:
- [Imprinted at London] : [By Iohan Iugge wydowe, dwellyng neare vnto Christes Churche], 1575 [that is, 1579]
- Notes:
- A translation of Abraham ben David ibn Daud's abstract, in book 3 of his "Sefer ha-Kabalah", of the anonymous "Josippon" or Yosippon". The latter has been misattributed to a Joseph ben Gorion, usually identified with Flavius Josephus.
- Imprint and correct publication date from colophon; title page reads "1575".
- With a final colophon leaf.
- Folio number 75 repeated twice, numbers 83-84 omitted, 172 repeated, and final leaf misfoliated 357.
- Formerly STC 14800.
- Identified as STC 14800 on UMI microfilm reel 472.
- Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1951. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 472:03). s1951 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 14798.5.
- OCLC:
- 55159238
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