(ITALY)

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 147

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CORCOS, HEZEKIAH MANOAH CHAIM (Tranquillo Vita) THE YOUNGER. Alla Sagra Consulta...Ghezzi Ponente per L’uniuersità degl’Hebrei di Roma. Memoriale. “Emintissimi, e Reverendissimi Signori.” [testimony for trial regarding the blood libel in Viterbo in 1705]. pp. (12). Dampstained, trace marginal worming. Unbound. 1705. * Alla Sagra Consulta...Ghezzi Ponente per L’uniuersità degl’Hebrei di Roma. Memoriale Additionale ad altro dato li 26 Settembre 1705. “Emintissimi, e Reverendissimi Signori.” [additional testimony in the Viterbo blood libel trial]. pp. (16). Damp-soiled at margins. Unbound. 1706. * Alla Sagra Consulta...Ghezzi Ponente per L’uniuersità degl’Hebrei di Roma. Sommario. [case summary of the blood libel charges brought against Gioseppe Ebreo]. Text in Italian. pp. (8). Damp-soiled at margins. Unbound. 1706 Lg. 4to.

Rome: Nella Stamperia della Reu v.d

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $600

Hezekiah Manoach Corcos was a member of the Rome branch of the Corcos family of Spanish exiles. He was appointed rabbi and secretary of the Roman Jewish community in 1702 and devoted much energy to communal affairs. In 1697 he appeared before the Congregation of the Holy Office to refute the anti-Jewish calumnies spread by the apostate Paolo Sebastiano Medici. In 1705-6, his testimonial pleas were successful in securing the withdrawal of the blood libel in Viterbo. See EJ V, col. 963 and C. Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946) p. 388-9