MURR, CHRISTOPH GOTTLIEB, VON. Versuch einer Geschichte der Juden in Sina. Nebst P. Ignaz Köglers Beschreibung ihrer heiligen Bücher in der Synagoge zu Kai-fong-fu, und einem Anhange über die Entstehung des Pentateuchs.

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Hammer price: $1,200

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author

(CHINA).

printer

J.E. Hendels

Place

Halle

Publication

1806

Description

German text, lengthy section in French, smattering of Hebrew and Farsi. With bibliography relating to Jews in China.

references

Freimann, p. 313

summary

A scarce early report concerning the far-flung Jewish community of Kaifeng, China. Contains transcriptions of sacred books in the Synagogue at Kaifeng with an eye to textual variants. The Author (1733-1811) was a polymathic German historian and magistrate, based in Nuremberg.

pp. 136. Trace foxed. Contemporary blind-tooled half-calf, gilt. Sm. 4to

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