Important collection of 29 manuscript documents
AUCTION 2 |
Tuesday, June 03rd,
1997 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal
Lot 172
(FRENCH JUDAICA).
Important collection of 29 manuscript documents
Provence and Languedoc: 1346-1426
Est: $13,000 - $15,000
Documents include names of many Jewish families, including: Crescas, Astruc and Durand. Many concern activities relating to the town of Apt, other places include: Aix, Carpentras, Digne, Istres and Marseille. Documents relate to agriculture and other economic activities, including money-lending.
Provencal Jewry at this time was an important center of Jewish scholarship, its population in 1348 probably numbered nearly 15,000. See Z. Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica (1962); H. Gross, Gallia Judaica (1969)