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JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico. Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia, edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. [231] (of [232]); [119] (of [120]) leaves, including blank ²a1; lacks initial and final blanks. Gothic type. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 268x197 mm, 19th-century vellum boards with leather lettering pieces; some headlines cropped, scattered partly cropped early marginalia, ugly marginal dampstaining through approximately the first 80 leaves with traces of mold, crude restoration or reinforcement in blank outer margin of first 20 leaves, small hole in first leaf affecting a few words, small partly repaired wormholes through blank lower outer corner of approximately 50 leaves in middle of volume, small repaired holes in blank outer margin of last leaf. Early ownership inscription in lower margin of first page. (Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 10 May 1400 [i. e., 1481]; 31 March 1481)
Fourth edition of a translation first published in 1470. The Greek original text first appeared in 1544. HCR 9453; GW M15175; BMC V, 256; Goff J484; Hoffmann II, 440.
