Brevet qui permet au M. Nathan Elias Dreifuss, Juif, d’Alsace, de se marier
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 92
(FRENCH JUDAICA)
Brevet qui permet au M. Nathan Elias Dreifuss, Juif, d’Alsace, de se marier
1784
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,750
Royal Permit permitting Nathan Elias Dreifuss of Sierentz (Alsace) to marry in 1784.
Louis XI’s Letters of Patent of July 10th 1784 contained 25 articles “aimed at reducing the numbers of Jews in Alsace in the name of justice and humanity” (JQR, Vol.44 (1954). Among the Articles was one regulating Jewish marriages and decreeing that all prospective weddings were to be approved by a Royal License.
Szajkowski (no.128a) records but a single example of this license he saw listed in a bookseller’s catalogue. The present example is printed on vellum