Keter Kehunah, ṿe-hu Sefer Yosipon bi-leshon Ashkenaz / ḥibero Yosef bin Goryon ha-Kohen.
כתר כהונה, והוא ספר יוסיפון בלשון אשכנז חברו יוסף בן גוריון הכהן.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Michael, active 16th century, translator.

Ḳośman ben Yosef Barukh, printer.

Leṿi, Naftali Hirts, 1696-1767, printer.

Moldovan Family Judaica Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

אדם, מיכאל.

מנחם מן בן שלמה, הלוי.

קאשמן בן יוסף ברוך

לוי, נפתלי הירץ.

Standardized Title:

Josippon. Judeo-German. Michael Adam. 1742 or 1743 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

ספר יוסיפון. גרמנית-יהודית. מיכל אדם. תק"ג (אמשטרדם)

Language:

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

Jews.

Genre:

woodcuts (prints)

Penn Provenance:

Moldovan, Joseph T. (donor) (CAJS Rare Moldovan copy)

Moldovan, Susan A. (donor) (CAJS Rare Moldovan copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

Manufacture:

[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Bi-vet uve-defus ha-meshutafim ha-alufim ... Naftali Hirts Leṿi Rofe, ʻim ḥatano ... Kośman, [1743]

[אמשטרדם] : בבית ובדפוס המשותפים האלופים... נפתלי הירץ לוי רופא, עם חתנו... קאשמן יצ"ו, [תק"ג]

Place of Publication:

Nidpas be-Amśṭerdam : Be-mitsṿat uve-hotsaʼat hane sheloshah aḥim... Yoḥanan sofer setam... Mordekhai Gumpel... Shelomoh Zalman, banim shel... [Gavriʼel] Langdod [1743]

נדפס באמשטרדם : במצות ובהוצאת הני שלשה אחים... יוחנן סופר סת"ם... מרדכי גומפל... שלמה זלמן, בנים של הרב [גבריאל] לאנג דוד, בשנת י'ו'ס'ף' ב'ן' ג'ו'ר'י'ו'ן' כ'הן לפ"ק

Language Note:

Judeo-German (Jüdischdeutsch), translated from the Hebrew original.

Summary:

Michael Adam's translation, revised by Menahem Mann Amelander, who added to it his second volume, with the title Sheʼerit Yiśraʼel, containing his sequel to Yosippon; covering Jewish history to 1740.

Notes:

Leaf count: Vol. 1: [4], 244 leaves; Vol. 2: [4], 148 leaves.

This edition also titled Keter Kehunah (first volume) and Keter Malkhut (second volume).

Woodcut illustrations, chiefly in the first volume, covering the widths half-colum and full column; variously captioned above woodcut frame.

Signatures: [chi]2 [alif]1-[lamed alif]31⁸ ²[alif]1-²[yud ḥet]18⁸ ²[yud ṭet]19⁴.

Second volume caption text ספר שארית ישראל ; chronogram on vol. 2, title page: בר'ג'ש' לפ"ק. Second volume with approbation by Aryeh Leib Lowenstamm.

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare Moldovan copy gift from the Moldovan Family Collection by Joseph T. Moldovan C'76, and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan.

CAJS Rare Moldovan copy imperfect: first three leaves missing, supplied in facsimilie; taped portion of some opening leaves; tears. Bound in 19th century brown marbled boards, with leather spine (spine detached).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Amsterdam 1568

Publications about:

Schatz, A. "Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-histories in the Early Modern Yosippon", in : From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond (Brill, 2024).

Wallet, B. "Hidden Polemic: Josephus's Work in the Historical Writings of Jacques Basnage and Menaḥem Amelander", in : Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture (Brill, 2019)

Contains:

Amelander, Menahem Mann ben Solomon, ha-Levi, -1767? Sheʼerit Yiśraʼel.

מנחם מן בן שלמה, הלוי. שארית ישראל.

OCLC:

54184901