Los veynte libros de Flavio Josepho, de las Antiguedades Judaycas, y su vida por el mismo escripta, con otro libro suyo del imperio de la Razon, en el qual trata del martyrio de los Machabeos: todo nuevamente traduzido de Latin en romance Castellano
AUCTION 31 |
Tuesday, December 13th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books
Lot 198
JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS
Los veynte libros de Flavio Josepho, de las Antiguedades Judaycas, y su vida por el mismo escripta, con otro libro suyo del imperio de la Razon, en el qual trata del martyrio de los Machabeos: todo nuevamente traduzido de Latin en romance Castellano
Antwerp: Martin Nucio 1554
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
One surmises that it is no coincidence that this Spanish language edition of Josephus was printed in Antwerp about the same time that the huge influx of Marranos poured into the Lowlands. To such a readership, with its recent history of martyrdom at the hands of the Inquisition, a chronicle describing the martyrdom of the ancient Maccabees would be of immense appeal