(Pseudo-Josephus). Josippon

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 324
YOSEF BEN GORION

(Pseudo-Josephus). Josippon

Third Edition. Hebrew in distinctive Basle typeface, provided with nikud (vowel pints). Broad margins ff. (66). Some browning. Contemporary vellum-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Basle 60; Prijs, Basle 60

Basle : Henricus Petri 1541

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $650
Prof. David Flusser of Hebrew University undertook extensive research upon the origins, of the creative history, by the apocryphal “Joseph ben Gorion.” Flusser found that the author - (unlike the authentic Joseph ben Matathias Hakohen, or Josephus Flavius, a true denizen of the Second Temple era) - wrote his work in Southern Italy in the year 953 c.e. Our copy has only the Hebrew portion of the book, printed right to left, without the Latin translation