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JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS [Title in Greek]. Flavii Josephi Opera.
Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius [Bischoff], 1544. The editio princeps in Greek. Full dark brown crushed morocco, raised band with terminal trefoils in blind (unsigned but in the manner of Douglas Cockerell at W.H. Smith, all edges gilt on the rough. 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (34 x 22 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 joint starting, light wear, minor toning but a generally fresh, unpressed copy, with full margins. With the bookplate of the Earl of Cromer and Albert May Todd.
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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