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

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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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 (Cornelius Nicolas Schurtz, Nuremberg, 1674) 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. (48), 1234, 88. Browned. Contemporary vellum, slight cracking. Thick 4to.

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