Bidspirit auction | Seder Olam Rabbah, Amsterdam, [1711].

Seder Olam Rabbah, Amsterdam, [1711]. Uncommon book. Vellum binding - Seder Olam Rabbah and Seder Olam Zuta, Megillat Ta‘anit, Sefer ha-Kabbalah by the Ra’avad (the first), Accounts of the Kings of the Second Temple and a Record of Roman History. Amsterdam, תע״א [1711]. The volume includes several works: • Seder Olam Rabbah — attributed to the Tanna Rabbi Yose ben Ḥalafta, dealing with the period from Adam the First Man until the Bar Kokhba revolt. • Seder Olam Zuta — the “Minor” (Zuta) chronicle, serving as a kind of supplement to Seder Olam Rabbah, by an early author whose identity is not known with certainty. • Megillat Ta‘anit — an ancient scroll whose composition began in the period of the Second Temple, listing days on which fasting and eulogies were forbidden due to significant events that occurred on those dates. • Seder ha-Kabbalah, an important work by Rabbi Abraham ibn Daud, the first Ra’avad, covering the chain of tradition from the time of Moses our Teacher until the era of the Geonim. • Accounts of the Kings of the Second Temple and a Record of Roman History, from its beginnings until the rise of the kingdom of Ishmael. [79], [1] leaves. Approx. 15 cm. Condition: very good. Attractive early vellum binding.