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Record Nr.

UNISA996390033503316

Titolo

A compendious and most marueilous historie of the latter tymes of the Iewes common weale [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprinted at London, : By William Seres], 1575 [1579]

Edizione

[And nowe newely corrected and amended by the sayde translatour.]

Descrizione fisica

[4], 257 [i.e. 256], [1] leaves

Altri autori (Persone)

MorwenPeter

Ibn DaudAbraham ben David, Halevi,  <ca. 1110-ca. 1180.>

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021