Johann Christoph Wagenseil. Belehrung der Jüdisch-Deutschen Red- und Schreibart.

AUCTION 73 | Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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(YIDDISH)

Johann Christoph Wagenseil. Belehrung der Jüdisch-Deutschen Red- und Schreibart.

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

Koenigsburg: Paul Friederich Rhode 1699

Est: $600 - $900

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.