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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author

(MIDRASH).

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Second Edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no. 16)

references

Vinograd, Venice 249; Haberman, Adelkind 28; Adams S-845

summary

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

ff. 62 (mispaginated as in all copies). Stained, previous owners signature on title (Yitzchak Treves). Later marbled boards, loose, rubbed. Sm. 4to

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