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Seder Olam Rabba, Amsterdam, [1711]. Rare.

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Seder Olam Rabba, Amsterdam, [1711]. Rare.

Seder Olam Rabba and Seder Olam Zuta, Megilas Ta’anis, Sefer HaKabbalah by the Ravad (the first), Divrei Malchus Bayis Sheni and Zichron Divrei Romi. Shlomo Katz Proops Press, Amsterdam, [1711]. Rare.

79, [1] leaves. Stamp of the Beis Midrash of the Ashkenazic community of London, notations and signatures.

This Sefer contains the following important historiographic compositions:

* Seder Olam Rabba – attributed to the Tana Rabbi Yossi ben Chalafta and containing a Jewish chronology based on traditions and Drashos, from Adam to the Bar Kokhba revoltץ

* Seder Olam Zuta – continuing and completing the chronology of Seder lam Rabba, for the eighty nine generations between Adam and the Rashei Golah of Babylon.

* Megilas Ta’anis – whose writing began during the Second Temple/ The scroll is written in Aramaic and contains a list of the days during which mourning and fasts were forbidden due to important events that occurred on them.

* Seder HaKabbalah, one of the historiographic creations by Rabbi Avraham ibn Daud, the first Ravad (1110-1180) of Cordoba and Toledo. The Sefer introduces Jewish history from Moses to the Geonim.

* Divrei Malchus Bayis Sheni and Zichron Divrei Romi, a chronology from the rule of Rome to the early days of the rule of Ishmael – two additional sections of Rabbi Avraham ibn Daud’s historiographic creations, which were written in Hebrew.

Partly detached vellum binding, partly detached title page, stains, fair-good condition.

Measurement: 15 CM

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