Vita

Description

Title: Vita
Creator: Josephus, Flavius
Published / Created: [ca. 1200]
Publication Place: Byzantium,
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (rough, brown; trimmed; no watermarks) of the Life of Josephus, which was perhaps an appendage to his Antiquitates. This codex appears to be one of the earliest surviving authorities for the autobiography of Josephus.
Description: Binding: 17th-18th centuries (?). Rebound in brick-red leather, blind-tooled with a rope interlace with small dots in the border and a floreate cross in the center.
Crude headpiece on f. 1r, with title and small initials in red.
Script: Written by a single scribe in well-spaced minuscule; a second scribe added four lines on f. 32v, partly damaged and undeciphered.
The upper and lower portions of the manuscript are waterstained. Most folios have been repaired; the final leaf is badly mutilated with much damage to the text.
Extent: ff. 32 + ii : paper ; 315 x 231 (260 x 180) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Josephus, Flavius
Subject (Topic): Autobiography
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Josephus, Vita. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 275.

Orbis Record: 9790223
Object ID (OID): 10269753
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms275.htm