Internal communal regulations [haskamoth] concerning marriage.

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Lot 134

(ITALY)

Internal communal regulations [haskamoth] concerning marriage.

Italian interspersed with Hebrew. Single-sided broadside. Horizontal and vertical folds, minute holes along folds (text virtually unaffected). Light stains. Folio.

(Venice): (After 1767)

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $800

The common theme of these decisions is that clandestine marriages are forbidden under threat of excommunication. The Venetian Rabbinate was determined to maintain strict parental and religious control of matrimony.