“Verwunderlicher Anfang und schmählicher Aussgang des unlängst neuenstandeded Juden Propheten Nathan Levi und des....jüdischen Messiae Sabezae, folgends aber Josvahel Cam genannt....”

(SHABBATHAI TZVI).

(Augsburg

1666)

German broadsheet. Engraving at top depicting vignettes of the fictional arrest and supposed execution of Shabbathai Tzvi (identified as Josvahel Cam)

G. Sholem, Sabbatai Sevi, The Mystical Messiah (1973), plate vi

Engraving depicting various scenes, numbered 1-8 depicting several legendary episodes from the careers of Nathan of Gaza and Shabbathai Tzvi. (1-2) Miracles performed by the prophet (Nathan) as testimony to the coming of the Jewish messiah. (3) Sabbathai crowned King of the Jews. (4) Shabbathai presented by the prophet to the Sultan. (5) Sabbathai arrested. (6) His throat cut by the Turks. (7) Disemboweling of his body. (8) Hanging upside down, to the lamentation of the Jews of Constantinople