Book of Genealogies - “Sefer Yuhasin” (Heb. ספר יוחסין)
Abraham Zacuto1580
The Polish Museum in Rapperswil
Rapperswil, Switzerland
Sefer yuḥasin (Heb. ספר יוחסין), a history of the Jewish People (since the Creation of the World until 1500), was written by Abraham Zacuto during his stay in Tunesia in 1504. The work was highly valued, and was reprinted in 1580 in Krakow, in 1717 in Amsterdam, and in 1857 in Königsberg. The full edition was published in 1857 by Filipowski in London.
Kraków: (Icchak ben Aaron Prostic), 1580.4º.
Notes in the Hebrew alphabet (16th/17th c. ?).
Cover: brown calfskin, cardboard, gilded embossing (18th/19th c.)
Title page and protective page with a provenance note.
- Title: Book of Genealogies - “Sefer Yuhasin” (Heb. ספר יוחסין)
- Creator: Abraham Zacuto
- Date created: 1580
- Location created: Cracow
- Provenance: 1. Liber Iohannis Lightfooti Ex dono clarissimi viri D (omi)ni Iohannis Seldeni Ianuar. 4. 1648/9., 2. E Libris Goba (...) 1737., 3. R. Umiestowski - stamp, 4. The Polish Museum in Rapperswil
- Type: Book
- About the author: Abraham Zacuto (Heb: אברהם זכות) born in Salamanca, 12 August 1452, died in Damascus, ca. 1515. A Sephardi Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, historian and rabbi. He served as astronomer at the court of King John II of Portugal in the 16th century.
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