Auction 68 · Lot 134
Shirim.
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- $1,700
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(ITALY).
Place
Cuneo
Publication
1814
Description
Manuscript in Hebrew, written in square type with vowels on paper, by Yedidyah ben David Chaim Lattes.
summary
Songs composed for the Community of Cuneo. Includes hymns recited on the High Holidays, Festivals and other synagogal occasions. With songs in honor of the Free Loan Society (with names of its members) and a composition to commemorate the local miracle of 1755.
Cuneo is a city in Piedmont, northern Italy, in which resided the oldest Jewish community in the territory of the House of Savoy. The census of Napoleon I indicates that 215 Jews lived in Cuneo in 1806, a number that increased to 301 by 1816.
ff. 37. Browned, few leaves loose. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, rubbed. 4to.
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