Anonymous. SEDER OLAM RABA VESEDER OLAM ZUTA [Two Midrashic chronologies]. With Megilath Ta’anith and Sepher HaKabalah, etc. by Abraham b. David of Posquieres (RAVa”D)

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Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Anonymous. SEDER OLAM RABA VESEDER OLAM ZUTA [Two Midrashic chronologies]. With Megilath Ta’anith and Sepher HaKabalah, etc. by Abraham b. David of Posquieres (RAVa”D)

Second Edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no. 16) ff. 62 (mispaginated as in all copies). Stained, previous owners signature on title (Yitzchak Treves). Later marbled boards, loose, rubbed. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 249; Haberman, Adelkind 28; Adams S-845

Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1545

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $950

Attributed to Yose b. Chalaphta, the Seder Olam Raba was the first text to establish the era “from the Creation of the World” or, Anno Mundi. The Megilath Ta’anith is of Tannaitic origin and is particularly useful as a parallel to the historical accounts presented by Josephus. The Seder Olam Zuta probably dates to the early medieval period. Abraham Zacuto included large portions of it in his Sepher Yuchasin