Large Certificate Signed by the Rabbis of Marrakesh - For the Tiberias Emissaries Rabbi Eliyahu Illouz and His Son ...

Large Certificate Signed by the Rabbis of Marrakesh - For the Tiberias Emissaries Rabbi Eliyahu Illouz and His Son Rabbi Yosef Illouz of Tiberias
Large handwritten recommendation, issued by the rabbis of Marrakesh and with their signatures, given to the emissaries R. Eliyahu Illouz and his son R. Yosef Chaim Illouz, who were on a mission in Morocco. Marrakesh, [1900].
Large certificate, in neat scribal script. Signed by the Torah scholars and rabbis of Marrakesh: the head of the Beit Din R. Yaakov Benchaim; and the dayanim R. Avraham Benmoha, R. Yemin Kohen and R. Avraham Zrihen.
Additional authorization signed by R. Shlomo Assabag, also a dayan and rabbi in Marrakesh.
R. Eliyahu Illouz (1860-1929), rabbi of Tiberias, travelled on behalf of the Tiberias community to Morocco in the 1890s, and again in 1899 together with his son, R. Yosef Chaim Illouz (1880-1961), also a leading Torah scholar in Tiberias.
46X37 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Folding marks. Tears to folds and margins, affecting text.