MS. Bodl. 697

A fourth-century reworking in Latin of Josephus' Greek De bello Iudaico (The Jewish War). Carson Bay notes that Ps. Hegesippus 'rescripts the narrative of Josephus' first-century, seven book account into five books for a late antique Christian audience' (Carson Bay, Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

The text begins 'uiro usque ad exitum' at 1. 1.2, and ends at 5.53.1 'circumuallauit hostis omne mu' in the last chapter, a leaf being lost at each end

Fol. 54 has the title 'Historie Egesippi de excidio Iudeorum'

Hegesippus may have been a misspelling of ‘Josephus’

Cf. Cambridge, University Library MS. Dd.9.4 and M.R. James’s unpublished description