Vita

Description

Title: Vita
Creator: Josephus, Flavius
Published / Created: [ca. 1200]
Publication Place: Byzantium
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (rough, brown; trimmed; no watermarks) of the Life of Josephus, which was perhaps an appendage to his Antiquitates. This codex appears to be one of the earliest surviving authorities for the autobiography of Josephus
Description: In Greek.
Script: Written by a single scribe in well-spaced minuscule; a second scribe added four lines on f. 32v, partly damaged and undeciphered.
Crude headpiece on f. 1r, with title and small initials in red.
The upper and lower portions of the manuscript are waterstained. Most folios have been repaired; the final leaf is badly mutilated with much damage to the text.
Binding: 17th-18th centuries (?). Rebound in brick-red leather, blind-tooled with a rope interlace with small dots in the border and a floreate cross in the center.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston; his gift in memory of Louis M. Rabinowitz in 1957.
Extent: ff. 32 + ii : 315 x 231 (260 x 180) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 275
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Byzantine Empire 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Josephus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic): Autobiography
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Josephus, Flavius
Autobiography
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Byzantine Empire > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Josephus, Vita. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.