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HEGESIPPUS

Historia de bello Iudaico, Scaeptri sublatione, Iudeorum dispersione, et Hierosolymitano Excidio

Paris
Jodocus Badius Ascensius
-1524

€400 - €500

In-folio, 86 ff, title in a beautiful woodcut ornamental border, showing the printing press. With criblé initials, coloured by hand (in a later period). Marginal wormholes throughout. Modern vellum binding

"Ref. Moreau III 679 ; Renouard ""Badius"" II 488-489 and ""Imprimeurs"" II 540. Not in Adams. Free Latin adaptation of the ""Jewish War"" with additions from the ""Jewish Antiquities"" and from the works of Roman historians, supposedly written by Hegesippus (now generally believed to be a corruption of the name of the original author)"

Humanism