De bello iudaico

Description

Title: De bello iudaico
Alternative Title: De bello Judaico
Creator: Josephus, Flavius
Contributor: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410.
Published / Created: [between 1150 and 1200]
Publication Place: Belgium (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Josephus, De bello iudaico, translated into Latin by Rufinus
Description: In Latin.
Written in bold and elegant early gothic bookhand; some looped flourishes in upper margins contain red dots.
Seven initials, 17- to 10-line, in red, filled with red swirling foliage on orange and green grounds, with touches of blue, against irregular grounds of blue and/or orange panels. 6- to 2-line initials, green and/or red with red or green foliate flourishes, set both outside and into text column; initials sometimes incorporate simple facial features. 1-line red initials for rubrics. Rubrics throughout; remains of notes to rubricator.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled.
Provenance: From the collections of M. Zagajski and Hannah D. Rabinowitz. Presented to Yale by William S. Glazier in 1960.
Extent: ff. i + 109 + i : 465 x 315 (365 x 220) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Belgium 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Josephus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Jews
History
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Josephus, Flavius
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Belgium > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Josephus, De Bello Iudaico. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.