A Study of the Yiddish-Teitsch Language, by Johann Christoph Wagenseil – Königsberg, 1699 - Engravings

A Study of the Yiddish-Teitsch Language, by Johann Christoph Wagenseil – Königsberg, 1699 - Engravings
Belehrung der Jüdisch-Deutschen Red- und Schreibart [Instruction of the Judeo-German Style and Script] by Johann Christoph Wagenseil. Königsberg: Paul Friedrich Rhode, 1699. German, Hebrew, Yiddish-Teitsch and Latin. A study of the Yiddish-Teitsch language, by Johann Christoph Wagenseil. A collection of texts in German, Hebrew, Yiddish-Teitsch and Latin, including: Three Yiddish songs for Passover, Masechet Nega'im [Tractate of Blemishes] (Hebrew and German), a text about riots against the Jews in Frankfurt Am Mein in 1614 (German, Yiddish-Teitsch and Latin), Hilchot Derech Eretz [Book of Proper Conduct] (Yiddish-Teitsch), a discussion of the question of whether the Holy Scriptures allow a person to marry two sisters (German) and the Legend of King Arthur (Yiddish-Teitsch).
The texts are accompanied by six engraved plates: four full-page engravings - depiction of a Chalitzah shoe, the Arch of Titus in Rome, and more; and two folded engraved plates portraying scenes taken from the Triumphal March relief on the Arch of Titus.
The author, Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633-1705) was a German theologist and Hebraist who was preoccupied with the question of Jews and Judaism. In several of his compositions, he presented evidence of the Jewish attitude against Christianity, yet also opposed forcible conversion. [82], 334, 56, [3] pp + [6] engraved plates, 19.5 cm. Parchment binding. Good condition. Stains. Creases and slight tears along the edges of several leaves. Handwriting on several pages. Stains and minor blemishes to binding.