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A compendious and most marueilous historie of the latter tymes of the Iewes common weale : begynnyng where the Bible or scriptures weale, and contynuyng to the vtter subuersion 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.
- 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 (4 unnumbered pages, 257 id est 256 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf)
- Edition:
- And nowe newely corrected and amended by the sayde translatour.
- Other Title:
- Compedious and most marveilous historie of the latter tymes of the Jewes common weale.
- Warres of the Iewes.
- Warres of the Jewes.
- Place of Publication:
- [Imprinted at London : By William Seres], 1575 [1579]
- 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.
- Imprint from colophon; title page reads "1575".
- Another issue, with cancel colophon leaf, of STC 14795, published in 1558.
- Leaves 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 212-13, and 252-57 misnumbered 75, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 08, 81, 82, 112-13, and 352-57; 172 repeated in number only.
- Last numbered leaf: 357.
- Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1384:24) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 14799.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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