Quinque libri Egesippi nacione Judei de excidio iudeorum

Contributor:

Lomer, Petrus (scribe)

Name:

Josephus, Flavius

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; 586 B.C.-70 A.D.; Rebellion, 66-73

Date:

1460

Description:

Digital facsimile of an illuminated manuscript of a Latin translation and adaptation of De bello Judaico with information added from other historians, mostly Latin, traditionally attributed to Egesippus. Contemporary scholarly marginalia and glosses attempt to resolve inconsistencies between this text and the more literal Latin translation of Rufinus.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

The added border with the Visconti arms (f. 2r) suggests that this manuscript was in the library of the bishop of Bamberg, Franz Joseph Anton von Hahn; many manuscripts in this library had borders with the arms of various well-known Italian families added before the library was sold at auction in Venice in the 18th century.; Formerly owned by W. E. Gladstone (Hawarden Castle Library, MMI10, label inside upper cover).; Sold at auction at Christie's, 8 Dec. 1982, lot 122.; Sold by Sam Fogg (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1998.; Sold by Lawrence J. Schoenberg at auction at Sotheby's to an unknown purchaser, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 33.; Hahn, Franz Joseph von, 1699-1747, former owner.; Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs237.html

Subject:

Jews -- History -- Early works to 1800; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.; Jews -- History -- Rebellion, 66-73; Jews; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); facsimiles (reproductions); histories (literary genre); annotations; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

185 leaves : illustrations

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from opening rubric (f. 2r, viewed on April 27, 2010).; Table of contents: 1. f.2r-2v: Prologus.; Table of contents: 2. f.2v-57v: Liber primus.; Table of contents: 3. f.57v-80r: Liber secundus.; Table of contents: 4. f.80r-104v: Liber tertius.; Table of contents: 5. f.104v-127v: Liber quartus.; Table of contents: 6. f.127v-185r: Liber quintus.; Collation: Parchment, i (17th-century paper) + 185 + i (17th-century paper); 1¹ 2-24⁸; modern foliation in pencil on every fifth leaf, lower right recto. Catchwords (mostly vertical) on last verso of gatherings 3-24. Some signatures visible, most trimmed away.; Layout: Written in 28 long lines; ruled in lead. Pricking visible in outer margins. Running headings for number of book, upper center recto, from Book 2 (f. 58r) onward.; Script: Written in the humanistic bookhand of Petrus Lomer (f. 185r).; Decoration: 6 illuminated initials marking beginning of prologue and each of the five books (f. 1r, 1v, 57v, 80r, 104v, 127v), 5-line to 8-line, maroon infilled with green strapwork on blue ground sprinkled with white within a gold border, identified by Albinia de la Mare as a Paduan type, ca. 1460. Rubrics in red at beginning of prologue, beginning of Book 1, and end of Book 5 (f. 2r, 2v, 185r). Numerous manicules. 17th-century painted architectural border with floral vases and Visconti armorial shield with two helmets (f. 2r).; Binding: 17th-century morocco, panelled in blind with fleur-de-lis cornerpieces, spine with the gilt label EGESIPPI DE EXCIDIO JUDAEORUM MSS.; Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Padua, ca. 1460 (based on analysis of illumination by Albinia de la Mare).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 288 x 199 (183 x 125) mm. bound to 302 x 216 mm.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, LJS 237

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)