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

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

ZACUTO, ABRAHAM

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1580-1

Description

Second edition, first with printed glosses

references

Vinograd, Cracow 63; Adams

summary

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, neat marginal repairs to title, signed by censor on verso of final leaf. Modern blind-tooled morocco. 4to

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