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Lot 101
JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS [Title in Greek]. Flavii Josephi Opera.
Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius [Bischoff], 1544. The editio princeps in Greek. Full old tree calf, the edges with a speckled pattern of blue and red. 12 1/4 x 81/2 inches (31.5 x 21.5 cm); [12], 967, [1] pp., collating*^(6), a-z^(6), A-Z^(6), aa-hh^(6), ii^(4), kk-zz^(6), AA-MM^(6); title in red and black with woodcut printer's device in red, device repeated in black on MM6v, large woodcut initial on fol. *2r, woodcut headpieces throughout. Front board detached, spine (rebacked at some point retaining the original) now partially perished, scattered staining at rear. N. Vansittart bookplate and another monogrammatic plate (RW?).
This, the first edition in the original Greek, is based on the earliest extant manuscript texts. The version written in Hebrew of Aramaic by Josephus does not survive, but he may well have overseen the preparation of the Greek translation. The manuscripts on which this edition is based were owned by Diego Hurtado Mendoza, the envoy of Charles V in Venice. It was edited by his librarian, the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius. The elegant Greek type had been used by Froben in printing the 1516 Erasmus New Testament. Adams J 351; VD16, J955; STC German 463.
C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library
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