694960 Ms. 1581 f. 108v Illustration from Book VI (\'From the Death of Eli to the Death of Saul\'), Chapter 1 of the \'Antiquities of the Jews\' (\'Antiquitates Judaicae\') by Flavius Josephus - \'The destruction that came upon the Philistines and on their land by the wrath of God on account of their capture of the Ark and how they returned it to the Hebrews\'\', c.1503 (vellum) (see also 694961) by French School, (16th century); Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris, France; (add.info.: Commissioned by Cardinal Georges d\'Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen for the library of his ch璽teau of Gaillon; patron of Jean Pichore (fl. c. 1500-20) one of the most famous manuscript illuminators in Paris and responsible for almost all of the miniatures in this edition of Flavius Josephus; the decorated borders are the work of Jean Serpin; \'Antiquitates Judaicae\' is a history of the Jewish people in 21 volumes written in Greek by Flavius Josephus (c.37-c.100 AD); this book consists of the fourth-century Latin translation ascribed to Rufinus;).