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A compendious and most marueilous historie of the latter tymes of Jews common weale : begynnyng where the Bible or scryptures leave, and contynuyng to the utter subvertion and last destruction of that countrey and people. Written in Hebrue by Joseph 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
Josippon. English. Abridgments.
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- And now newly corrected and amended by the said translator
- [Imprinted at London : By Johan Jugge wydowe, dwellyng neare unto Christes Churche], 1575 [i.e. 1579]
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- [4], 357 [i.e. 258], [1] leaves
- 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 Flavius Josephus.
- Imprint and correct publication date from colophon; title page reads "1575".
- With a final colophon leaf.
- Folio number 75 repeated twice, numbers 83-84 omitted, 172 repeated, and final leaf misfoliated 357.
- Formerly STC 14800.
- Identified as STC 14800 on UMI microfilm reel 472.
- Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
- STC (2nd ed.) 14798.5.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.