Sota. Hoc est Liber Mischnicus de Uxore Adulterii Suspecta [“Sotah, Mishnaic Tractate of the Suspected Adulteress.”]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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WAGENSEIL, JOHANN CHRISTOPHER.

Sota. Hoc est Liber Mischnicus de Uxore Adulterii Suspecta [“Sotah, Mishnaic Tractate of the Suspected Adulteress.”]

Title in red and black. Additional engraved title with further ten engraved plates, engraved text illustrations. Hebrew text, with Latin translation and annotation pp.(38),1234,88, (16). Institutional stamp on foredge. Contemporary calf, gilt spine in five compartments. Thick 4to Freimann 128

Altdorf: J. H. Schönnerstaedt for J. Andrea & W. Endter 1674

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Includes other Talmudic extracts and corrections to the Sepher Nitzachon of Rabbi Yom-Tov Lippmann Mülhausen. Wagenseil (1633-1705), was a German Christian Hebraist, who, in his determination to understand Judaism in all its ramifications engaged in a thorough study of rabbinics