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

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author

ZACUTO, ABRAHAM.

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1580-1

Description

Second edition, first edition with printed glosses. Marginal notes in a 17th-century cursive Ashkenazic hand.

references

Vinograd, Cracow 63; Adams A-46

summary

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)

ff. 168. Lightly browned, few light stains in places, title and first three leaves supplied from a shorter copy. Modern morocco. 4to

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