FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

In-folio, [2] - cxciiii - cx - [88] ff, (last leaf blank), title printed in red and black, with fine woodcut title-border. Small printer's device of J. Petit on title. Many criblé initials. Manuscript ex dono of Thomas Gabler on first pastedown (anno 1538). Extensive contemporary annotations on fly-leaf. Some pale marginal damp stains. Contemporary calf binding over wooden boards, both sides divided by triple fillets into a double frame and an inner rectangle which is filled with diagonals producing lozenge-shaped compartments, in each a large floral decoration, the whole surrounded by a roll-produced floral border, in each corner a rosette. Back neatly repaired, clasps renewed, new brass rims, catches preserved