Belehrung der Jüdisch-Deutschen Red- und Schreibart.

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 270

WAGENSEIL, JOHANN CHRISTOPH.

Belehrung der Jüdisch-Deutschen Red- und Schreibart.

Text in German and Judeo-German. Six engraved plates, including portrayal of a Chalitzah shoe and a portrait of Vincent Fettmilch. pp. (84), 334, 56, (3). Lightly browned. Contemporary boards, worn. 4to.

Koenigsburg: Paul Friederich Rhode 1699

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $650

Wagenseil (1633-1705), was a German Christian Hebraist, who, in his determination to understand Judaism in all its ramifications mastered Yiddish and studied its literature. The present work is a collection of texts including Yiddish songs for Passover, a Yiddish version of the Arthurian legend, a Yiddish version of Hilchoth Derech Eretz Rabah Vezuta and the Megillath Vintz composed by Elchanan Hellen, which describes the Fettmilch uprising in Frankfurt. Also discuss Jewish-German dialect, etc.