A compendious and most marueilous historie of the latter tymes of the Iewes common weale : begynnyng where the Bible or scryptures leaue, and contynuyng to the vtter subuertion and last destruction of that countrey and people. Written in Hebrue by Ioseph Ben Gorion, a noble man of the same countrey, who saw the most things hym selfe, and was aucthour and dooer of a great parte of the same. Translated into Englysh by Peter Morwyn, of Magdalen Colledge in Oxforde.

Other author Morwen, Peter.
Other author Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180.
Other author Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name.
Format Electronic
EditionAnd nowe newely corrected and amended by the sayde translatour.
Publication Info[Imprinted at London : By Iohan Iugge wydowe, dwellyng neare vnto Christes Churche], 1575 [i.e. 1579]
Description[4], 357 [i.e. 258], [1] leaves
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Uniform titleJosippon. English. Abridgments.
Variant title Compendious and most marveilous historie of the latter tymes of the Jewes common weale.
Variant title Yosippon.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteA translation of Abraham ben David ibn Daud's abstract, in book 3 of his "Sefer ha-Kabalah", of the anonymous "Josippon" or Yosippon". The latter has been misattributed to a Joseph ben Gorion, usually identified with Flavius Josephus.
General noteImprint and correct publication date from colophon; title page reads "1575".
General noteWith a final colophon leaf.
General noteFolio number 75 repeated twice, numbers 83-84 omitted, 172 repeated, and final leaf misfoliated 357.
General noteFormerly STC 14800.
General noteIdentified as STC 14800 on UMI microfilm reel 472.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
References STC (2nd ed.) 14798.5.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 472:03)
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