Sepher Yuchasin [onomasticon and history]. Seder Olam Zuta and printed glosses by Moses Isserles (RaM”A)

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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ZACUTO, ABRAHAM.

Sepher Yuchasin [onomasticon and history]. Seder Olam Zuta and printed glosses by Moses Isserles (RaM”A)

Second edition, first edition with printed glosses. Marginal notes in a 17th-century cursive Ashkenazic hand. ff. 168. Lightly browned, few light stains in places, title and first three leaves supplied from a shorter copy. Modern morocco. 4to Vinograd, Cracow 63; Adams A-46

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1580-1

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

A work that outlines the historical development of the Oral Law and establishes the chronology of the Sages who transmitted it. Also chronicles the history of various nations along with the state of scientific research and scholarship. The narrative reaches the Author’s day (the Spanish Expulsion)