(FRENCH JUDAICA)

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

Back to Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/631

Next Lot>

Lot 141

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Du Mandement de Monseigneur Illustrissime & Reuerendissme Vice-Legat d’Avignon, & a la Requeste de Messieurs les Creantiers de la Communaute des Carrieres des Juifs de l’isle & Cavaillon... [Decree at the order of his Holiness regulating the debts of the Jews of Cavaillon and the Island with those of Carrières] Single printed folio leaf. Framed Not listed by Szajkoski, Franco-Judaica

Avignon: George Bramereau 1660

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

Though excluded from France, in this earlier period the Jews were allowed to live in the Comtat Venaissin (Papal enclave in Southern France). They formed four communities; Avignon, Carpentras, Cavaillon and L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. The Comtat Venaissin belonged to the Papacy up untill the French Revolution