Teshuvah al Agunah [responsa regarding a “chained woman”]

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 164

(WOMEN).

Teshuvah al Agunah [responsa regarding a “chained woman”]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in semi-cursive Sephardic hand on paper. ff. (6). Marginal tear affecting a few words on p. 2, few stains. Later sheep, rubbed. 8vo.

Constantinople: 17th-18th century

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

An anonymous responsa concerning a woman (one Sarah bath Shabthai, wife of Shmuel ben Moshe) who originated from the Polish city of Lipowitz, and now recently arrived in Constantinople, seeks to remarry.