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A04666 A compendious and most marueilous history of the latter tymes of the Iewes commune weale beginnynge where the Bible or Scriptures leaue, and continuing to the vtter subuersion and laste destruction of that countrey and people: written in Hebrew by Ioseph Ben Gorion, a noble man of the same countrey, who sawe the most thinges him selfe, and was auctour and doer of a great part of the same. Translated into Englishe by Peter Morvvyng of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.; Josippon. English. Abridgments. Morwen, Peter.; Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180. Sefer ha-Kabalah.; Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name. 1558 (1558) STC 14795; ESTC S122046 196,775 569

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