Auction 58
Rare and Important Items
Oct 31, 2017
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Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 25:
Emissary Letter on Parchment - Signed by Twenty-nine Rabbis - Tiberias, 1865
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Sold for: $3,400
Start price:
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2,000
Auction house commission:
23%
VAT: On commission only
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Emissary letter on behalf of the fund of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNess in Tiberias, to the emissary Rabbi Binyamin Nechmad who traveled to Baghdad, Arabistan, Kurdistan, "Calcutta and Bombay and all cities of India as well as to Persia and large city of Bukhara". Tiberias, [1865].
Handwritten on a large parchment sheet; the upper margins are cut in the shape of a dome. Semi-cursive Sephardic (Rashi) script, with some emphasized words written in large square script.
At the bottom of the sheet are 29 signatures of Tiberian rabbis, in Oriental calligraphy. Among the signatories are: "Senior" rabbi, Rabbi Chaim Shmuel HaKohen (Konverti); Rabbi Ya'akov Abulafia; Rabbi Shimon Abadi; Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Abulafia; Rabbi Mordechai Karasanti; Rabbi Menasheh Arzi HaKohen; Rabbi Yedidya HaKohen; Rabbi Chaim Asmaga; Rabbi David Esudri; Rabbi David Netanel Rofeh; Rabbi Avraham Alchadif; Rabbi Baruch Toledano; and many others.
Parchment sheet, 49X64 cm, framed. Good-fair condition. Stains. Creases on parchment. Unexamined out of the frame.
