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Title

Quinque libri Egesippi nacione Judei de excidio iudeorum

Authors

• Josephus, Flavius

Other related names

• Lomer, Petrus, scribe
• Hahn, Franz Joseph Anton von, 1699-1748, former owner
• Gladstone, W. E. 1809-1898, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 237
(University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Web)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947699533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4769953

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1460

Place

Padua?, Italy

Summary

Digital facsimile of an illuminated manuscript of a Latin translation and adaptation of De bello Judaico with information added from other historians, mostly Latin, traditionally attributed to Egesippus. Contemporary scholarly marginalia and glosses attempt to resolve inconsistencies between this text and the more literal Latin translation of Rufinus.

Notes

• Title from opening rubric (f. 2r, viewed on April 27, 2010).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 288 x 199 (183 x 125) mm. bound to 302 x 216 mm.
   

Extent

1 online resource (185 leaves) :

Collation

Parchment, i (17th-century paper) + 185 + i (17th-century paper); 1¹ 2-24⁸; modern foliation in pencil on every fifth leaf, lower right recto. Catchwords (mostly vertical) on last verso of gatherings 3-24. Some signatures visible, most trimmed away.

Support

Ill.

Binding

17th-century morocco, panelled in blind with fleur-de-lis cornerpieces, spine with the gilt label EGESIPPI DE EXCIDIO JUDAEORUM MSS.

Layout

Written in 28 long lines; ruled in lead. Pricking visible in outer margins. Running headings for number of book, upper center recto, from Book 2 (f. 58r) onward.

Decoration

6 illuminated initials marking beginning of prologue and each of the five books (f. 1r, 1v, 57v, 80r, 104v, 127v), 5-line to 8-line, maroon infilled with green strapwork on blue ground sprinkled with white within a gold border, identified by Albinia de la Mare as a Paduan type, ca. 1460. Rubrics in red at beginning of prologue, beginning of Book 1, and end of Book 5 (f. 2r, 2v, 185r). Numerous manicules. 17th-century painted architectural border with floral vases and Visconti armorial shield with two helmets (f. 2r).

Script

Written in the humanistic bookhand of Petrus Lomer (f. 185r).

Provenance

• The added border with the Visconti arms (f. 2r) suggests that this manuscript was in the library of the bishop of Bamberg, Franz Joseph Anton von Hahn; many manuscripts in this library had borders with the arms of various well-known Italian families added before the library was sold at auction in Venice in the 18th century.
   
• Formerly owned by W. E. Gladstone (Hawarden Castle Library, MMI10, label inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 8 Dec. 1982, lot 122.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1998.
   
• Sold by Lawrence J. Schoenberg at auction at Sotheby's to an unknown purchaser, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 33.
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--History--Early works to 1800
• Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D
• Jews--History--Rebellion, 66-73

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Histories
• Annotations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• History
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Prologus, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Liber primus, f. 2v
• fol. 57v — Liber secundus, f. 57v
• fol. 80r — Liber tertius, f. 80r
• fol. 104v — Liber quartus, f. 104v
• fol. 127v — Liber quintus, f. 127v

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Decorated border, f. 2r
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 57v
• fol. 80r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 80r
• fol. 104v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 104v
• fol. 127v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 127v