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

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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

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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 (Cornelius Nicolas Schurtz, Nuremberg, 1674) with further ten engraved plates, engraved text illustrations. Hebrew text, with Latin translation and annotation. pp. (48), 1234, 88. Browned. Contemporary vellum, slight cracking. Thick 4to. Freimann 128.

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

Est: $400 - $600

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.