Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(FRANKFURT AM MAIN.) Der Juden zue Franckfurth Stättigkheit undt Ordnung, wie die im Nahmen der Kaysserlichen May[es]t[ä]t. geendert unnd verbessert worden, de anno 1616. Small woodcut on page 8 depicting ring that Jews were required to wear in Frankfurt. 28, [18] pages. Small folio, contemporary boards, covers detached, backstrip lacking. Np, (1753)

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Code of statutes governing relations between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Frankfurt, revised in 1616 after the Emperor ordered the Jews to return to the city. They had been forced to leave 2 years earlier in the wake of a violent assault on the ghetto instigated by the anti-Jewish guild leader Vincent Fettmilch. EJ VI, 1248, and VII, 84-86.