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A compendious and most marveilous history of the latter tymes of the Jewes common weale. [...]
Josippon. English. Abridgments.
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- Warres of the Jews
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- Sefer ha-Kabalah
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [Imprinted at London : By John Wallie], 1575 [1579]
- Physical Details
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- [4], 353 [i.e. 354], [5] leaves
- Imprint, and correct publication date, from colophon.
- Printer's device (McKerrow 123) on recto of last leaf, below colophon.
- A translation of Abraham ben David, ha-Levi'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.
- Imperfect; title page badly stained; illegibile in some parts.
- Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
- STC (2nd ed.) 14799a.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.