Obj. ID: 38015
  Comparative & Miscellaneous Sota by Joh. Christophor Wagenseil, Altdorf bei Nürnberg, 1674
This text was prepared by William Gross:
Sota, Hoc est: Liber Mischnicus De Uxore Adulterii Suspecta, Una cum Libri en Jacob Excerptis Gemarae Versione Latina, & Commentario perpetuo, Joh. Christophori Wagenseilii. Altdorf [Altdorfii Noricorum], 1674. Hebrew and Latin.
This volume is from Mishnayot, tractate Sotah, in Hebrew, with accompanying Latin translation and commentary. The frontispiece is a full-page illustration of the Sotah being taken to be tested by the priests. Numerous additional illustrations, several being full-page images. Among the other illustrations are: the priest wearing tallit and tefillin; tefillin with their head and arm straps; magen davids; halizah shoes; coins, and an undressed woman with skull and cross.
[48], 1234, 88 pp [10] plates
The tractate's Latin translation and commentary were supplied by the Christian Hebraist Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633-1705). This is the first of several tractates he translated. His motivation, partially missionary, was also to add the Talmud to the curriculum of Christian scholars.