WAGENSEIL, JOHANN CHRISTOPH. Belehrung der Jüdisch-Teutschen Red- und Schreibart. 6 engraved plates. [86], 334; 56 pages, with the final 2-leaf gathering (note to reader and errata) misbound after the title. bound after his:Exercitationes sex varii argumenti. [8], 244 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, 206x168 mm, 18th-century 1/2 vellum, worn; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling, browning in gutter of some leaves caused by laid-in slips of paper. Königsberg: Paul Friedrich Rhode, 1699; Altdorf: Johann Heinrich Schönnerstädt for heirs of Paul Fürst in Nuremberg, 1687
first editions. The first work is an introduction to reading Yiddish for a non-Jewish audience, with a bilingual selection of texts including the Arthurian narrative Kinig Artus Hof, and the Megillat Vinz by Elhanan ben Abraham Helen, on the 1612-14 Fettmilch uprising targeting Jews in Frankfurt am Main. The second work comprises miscellaneous Hebrew tracts with Latin translations by Wagenseil. EJ XVI, 240; Faber du Faur 1511 (first work).
