Opera Iosephi Iudaeorum doctissimi ac disertissimi, quae ad nostram aetatem pervenerunt omnia, nimirum: De antiquitatibus Iudaicis libri XX. Quibus vita Iosephi per ipsum conscripta, est adiecta: De bello Iudaico VII. Contra Apionem II. De imperio rationis, siue de Machabaeis I. Antehac in Latinum sermonem translata, & ad exemplum Graeci codicis accurate distincta. Nunc vero chronologia ad caput vniuscuiusque folii, cum ex veterum tum recentiorum scriptorum commentariis, cumque scholiis necessariis, recens concinnata. Cum indice locupletissimo. Omnia quam absolutissime edita, et a mendis, quibus scatebant plurimis, repurgata. Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum, M.D.XCIX. (Colophon: Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum per Wolffgangum Richterum, impensis Ioannis Feyerabendij, M.D.XCIX.)

WITH THE COAT-OF-ARMS OF THE DUKES OF WURTTEMBERG AND DAVID'S STAR ON THE BINDING

8vo (189x123 mm). 879, [53] pp. Collation: A-Mmm⁸ Nnn². Title page printed in red and black with a woodcut vignette showing a battle scene in the center. Feyerabend's woodcut device and colophon on l. Nnn2v. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. Text within a typographic border. Roman, Greek and italic types. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine with four raised bands and inked title, coat-of-arms of the Dukes of Wurttemberg on the front panel, David's Star on the back panel (spine soiled, slighlty worn). Slightly uniformly browned, but a good, genuine copy.

Provenance. On the front pastedown ownership entry written in red and black and dated 1^st September 1636 by the Cannstatt scholar and preceptor at the college of Bietigheim, Ezechiel Studion (d. 1639): “Sum ex Studiis Ezechielis Studionis Cantharopolitani t.t. Scholae Bieticanae Praeceptor Cal: Septemb. Anno Christi 1636 Sum Studion Studiis Studionaeis Studioso”. Ezechiel was the son of Johann Stephan Studion (1570-1626), who worked as a tutor in Blaubeuren, Waiblingen, and Cannstatt, and the grandson of the Wurttemberg poet and historian Simon Studion (1543-ca. 1610), who was close to the Rosicrucian movement. On the title page two ownership entries, one still readable (“M. Joh. Mich. Bonhoferi”), the other inked out, and a later red stamp (“E. Wallroth”).

Feyerabend pocket editon of Josephus Flavius' complete works. The De antiquitatibus Iudaicis and Contra Apionem are edited by Sigmund Gelen (1497-1554), the De bello Iudaico by Tyrannius Rufinus Aquileiensis (345-410), and De Machabaeis by Erasmus (1466-1536).

VD16, J-968.

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