Regola…Natione Hebrea di Ferrara [Regulations of the Jewish Community of Ferrara]

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 130

(ITALIAN JUDAICA).

Regola…Natione Hebrea di Ferrara [Regulations of the Jewish Community of Ferrara]

Latin, Italian and Hebrew Trace dampstained. Eight unbound fascicles. Folio Title page of Regole for the year 1782 from the Cecil Roth collection iillustrated in EJ Vol.VI, col. 1233

Ferrara: n.p. 1683,1704,1718,1734,1757,1768,1772, 1777

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,100

These Regulations deal with such prosaic matters as taxation and administration of the school system (Talmud Torrà) and the Rabbinic Academy. Typically the Regola conclude with a Hebrew formula of herem (excommunication) for members of the community who willfully violate the terms of the Regulations. (In the 1757 edition the herem is provided in manuscript rather than printed and was validated by the poet R. Jacob Daniel Olmo and Pinchas Chai Anav.) The physician R. Isaac Lampronti, famed author of the encyclopedic halachic work Pachad Yitzchak, issued the Regola for the years 1718 and 1734