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IBN DAUD, ABRAHAM BEN DAVID HA-LEVI. Zikhron divrei Romi; seu, Commemoratio rerum Romanarum ab u. c. usque ad tempora Muchammedis. Hebrew text with Latin translation and notes by Andreas Christoph Zeller. [16], 167, [9] pages. 8vo, contemporary boards with gilt arms on covers, spine damaged; some foxing, few small wormholes through front free endpaper and title. Bookplate of Giuseppe Garampi (1725-92), Prefect of the Vatican archives from 1749 to 1772 and Cardinal from 1785. Stuttgart: Mezler & Erhard, 1724
first edition of this translation of a history of Rome from its founding to the rise of the Muslim Empire, originally forming the second of 2 appendixes to the author's chronicle of Judaic tradition Sefer ha-Kabbalah. "Its basic purpose was to attack Christianity by claiming that the New Testament was a late fabrication of Constantine" (EJ). Ibn Daud was a 12th-century Spanish-Jewish astronomer, philosopher, and historian. EJ VIII, 1159-63; Sarton II, 368-69.
