Latin Antiquities
The project’s edition of the Latin Antiquities is based on Bamberg Msc.Class.78. The complete text, including the Proem and twenty books, was published by the project in 2019 and revised in 2026.
The project’s edition
The text was prepared by R.M. Pollard, J. Timmermann, J. di Gregorio, M. Laprade and J.-F. Aubé-Pronce. The reader brings together the Latin, the Greek text and English translations, with Niese references and manuscript divisions.
Read the Antiquities · View the manuscript catalogue.
Froben 1524
The Froben edition covers the Proem and all twenty books. Its pane follows the Antiquities passage selection and can also display Froben’s own printed divisions and pages.
The scan links open the digitised copy held by Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH FQ I 5.
Read Froben alongside Bamberg · About the Froben edition · View the Basel facsimile.
Editions and manuscript source
- Bamberg Msc.Class.78, digitised manuscript.
- Franz Blatt, ed., The Latin Josephus. I: Introduction and Text. The Antiquities: Books I–V (Aarhus, 1958).
- Randolf Lukas, ed., Josephus Latinus, Antiquitates Judaicae. Buch 6 und 7 (Trier, 2022), a critical edition of Books VI–VII.
English translations
The reader offers Whiston and Lodge. Each translator has a shared discussion page covering all three Josephus works available on this site.
Institutional affiliation and research support
This project draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Ce projet s’appuie sur des recherches financées par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada.
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