**The author of Seder Olam Zuta** lived in the year 4881, [as Yuchsin writes that Rabbi Yosef Tov Elem arranged it, see in Seder HaKabbalah of the Rema. And this is distant because Rabbi Yosef Tov Elem lived in the days of Rabbeinu Gershom of Mainz. And in the Tzeda LaDerech it is written that the author of Seder Olam was either from the Geonim or another sage in their time, and see there. (See year 4866).

Seder HaKabbalah chapter 39b writes: the author of Seder Olam Rabbah and Zuta says in his composition that it was the year 4881 which was 1052 to the destruction. And I saw written that it was 4890, there is a printing error here for the destruction was in 3828 and 1052 is 4880. Also what Seder Olam Rabbah says is a printing error, for Seder Olam Rabbah was composed by Rabbi Yosi ben Chalafta as written in Siftei Yeshenim and in the Tur chapter 46, page 72, and he was a student of Rabbi Akiva who was killed 52 years after the destruction, and how can he write that it was 1052 to the destruction - this is difficult].