Anton Peter Graf Pichowsky von Przichowitz, Archbishop of Prague. Ex contextu ordinationis Caes. Regiae die 21. Octobris a.c. emanatae dispicitur.

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

Lot 98
(CONVERSIONARY).

Anton Peter Graf Pichowsky von Przichowitz, Archbishop of Prague. Ex contextu ordinationis Caes. Regiae die 21. Octobris a.c. emanatae dispicitur.

Text in Latin and German. pp. (4). Browned. Unbound. Folio.

Prague: 1791

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Decree lowering the age to 14 years, of Jewish children permitted to be baptized into the Church. Jewish children who were so baptized were not to reside with their Jewish parents, but were to be raised by Christian foster parents, or in Christian orphanages. * <<Along with>> two other decrees relating to church administrative practices.