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Metadata

DS ID:

DS151

Shelfmark:

LJS 237

Title:

Quinque libri Egesippi nacione Judei de excidio iudeorum

The Jewish War

Author:

Josephus, Flavius

Josephus WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Lomer, Petrus

Petrus Lomer WIKIDATA

Place:

Padua?, Italy

Padua TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1460?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

illustrations

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (185 leaves) : illustrations

Former Owner(s):

Hahn, Franz Joseph von, 1699-1747

Franz Josef von Hahn WIKIDATA

Gladstone, W. E. 1809-1898

William Ewart Gladstone WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from opening rubric (f. 2r, viewed on April 27, 2010).
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...
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.
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.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin

facsimiles (reproductions)

annotations

Jews

History

Jewish Rebellion (66-73 A.D.)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9947699533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3nz80q8v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania