(Attributed to). Seder Olam Rabba VeSeder Olam Zuta. With Megillath Ta’anith and Sepher HaKabbalah by Abraham ibn Daud Halevi [chronologies]

YOSÉ BEN CHALAPHTA.

Ambrosius Froben

Basle

1580

Third edition. Title within architectural arch. Numerous learned rabbinic marginalia

Vinograd, Basle 164; Prijs, Basle 128; not in Adams

Froben simultaneously issued a Latin-Hebrew (Adams S-846) and Hebrew only version of this work. Attributed to the Tanna R. Yosé b. Chalaphta, the Seder Olam Raba was the first text to establish the era “from the Creation of the World” or, Anno Mundi. Seder Olam Zuta, on the other hand, dates to the early medieval period. Megillath Ta’anith, a calendar of historic events divided according to the months of the year, was written in the Second Temple Era and is highly reflective of the Pharisaic-Sadducean controversy. Abraham Zacuto included large portions of it in his Sepher Yuchasin.