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A compendious and moste marueylous history of the latter times of the Iewes commune weale : beginnyng where the Byble or Scriptures leaue, and continuyng to the vtter subuersion and laste destruction of that countrey and people. Wrytten in Hebrewe by Ioseph Ben Gorion, a noble man of the same countrey, who sawe the most thynges hym selfe, and was auctour and doer of a great part of the same. Translated into Englyshe by Peter Morvvyng of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Standardized Title:
- Josippon. English. Abridgments.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D--Early works to 1800.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 unnumbered leaves, lxxii, lxxi-lxxviii, lxxxi-Clviii, Clx-Clxi, Clxi-Clxvii, Clxvii-CClix leaves)
- Edition:
- And nowe newly corrected and amended by the sayde translatour.
- Other Title:
- Compendious and moste marveylous history of the latter times of the Jewes commune weale.
- Place of Publication:
- [Imprinted at London : In Povvles Churche yarde by Rycharde Iugge, printer to the Quenes Maiestie], Anno. 1561.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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 Joseph ben Gorion ha-Kohen but occasionally with Flavius Josephus.
- Printer's name and address from colophon.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 425:03) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 14796.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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