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

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

WAGENSEIL, JOHANN CHRISTOPHER.

printer

J. H. Schönnerstaedt for J. Andrea & W. Endter

Place

Altdorf

Publication

1674

Description

Title in red and black. Additional engraved title with further ten engraved plates, engraved text illustrations. Hebrew text, with Latin translation and annotation

references

Freimann 128

summary

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

pp.(38),1234,88, (16). Institutional stamp on foredge. Contemporary calf, gilt spine in five compartments. Thick 4to

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