London. British Library, Harley MS 59
- Source
- The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
- Library
- London. British Library
- Shelfmark
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- British Library, Harley MS 59
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- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
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- Preferred form
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- Hégésippe (03..-03..?)
- Original form
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- Pseudo-Hegesippus, 4th century
- Other form
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- Hegesippus
- Josephus <Christianus>
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- Description
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- This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to Hegesippus, which may have been a misspelling of ‘Josephus’. Contents: ff. 2r-73v: Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae , beginning: ‘Quaecunque scriptura complexa est’. [ff. 74r-75v are blank].Decoration:3 large initials in blue or in red, with reserved designs and penwork decoration alternating between green and brown (ff. 2r, 36r, 46r). 3 large initials in red with penwork decoration in blue or in blue with penwork decoration in red (ff. 2r, 26r, 54v). Numerous small initials in red or green with penwork decoration in the alternate colour (ff. 33v-73v), one in blue with penwork decoration in red (f. 38v). Numerous initials in red or green, occasionally with some penwork decoration in the same colour. Rubrics in red (ff. 2r, 26r).
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- Preferred form
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- England (United Kingdom)
- Original form
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- England
- Other form
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- Angleterre
- Angleterre (?)
- Angleterre.
- Angleterre ?
- Anglaterra
- Inglaterra
- Engeland
- Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
- Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
- Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
- England (Salisbury?)
- [Oxford?]
- [England]
- England, Norwich?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
- England, Cornwall?
- England, St. Albans?
- England, North?
- England, York?
- England, Witham?
- England, Winchester or St. Albans
- England, Reading or Leominster
- England, Cirencester?
- England, Sherborne?
- England, Worcester?
- England, Bury St. Edmunds?
- England, Tewkesbury?
- England, East Anglia?
- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
- England, West Midlands?
- England, London?
- England, Crowland?
- England, Wessex?
- England, Reading?
- England, Northeast?
- England, Southeast?
- England, Ely?
- England, Winchester or Hereford?
- England, Salisbury?
- England, Oxford or Salisbury
- German (but made in England)
- England, South East (?)
- England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
- Hereford?, England
- England, Durham ?
- England, Durham?
- England, probably Durham
- England, Oxford (?)
- England, possibly Oxford
- England (?Oxford)
- England, Durham (?)
- England, London/Westminster
- Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- Engeland (?)
- England (II)
- I. England
- [Engeland]
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- Rights
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- Public domain in most countries other than the UK
