Sefer Yuchsin V’Korot am Yisrael by Rabbi Avraham Zakut, with glosses and additions by Rabbi Moshe Isserlis – the Ram"a.

Kraków, 1580-1581. [Press of Yitzchak son of Aharon of Proßnitz].

Second edition of this important work with the history of the Jewish people from Creation to the author’s period (c. 1500). It is also the first edition with the Ram"a’s supplements and other supplements. The many subsequent printed editions are based on this edition.

168 Leaves.19.5 Cm.

Title page with Antique Italian signatures: …Nathan Karmi,   his son Yechiel Karmi.

Pages 133, 143 & 144 with long marginalia in an antique Italian hand.


Overall Good-fair condition, some stains, title page & one other page have a marginal tear, title page has a tear slightly affecting text, minor marginal worming, later new blue leather cover.

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Sefer Yuchsin, Kraków, 1580. First Edition with Hagahot HaRam"a. Signatures & glosses of the Karmi family.

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