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Auction 27 · Lot 289
(ITALIAN JUDAICA)
- Estimate
- $1,200–$1,800
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Rome
Publication
ca. 1670
Description
Three Consultations to the Apostolic Camera Concerning Usury and the Jews: 1) Risposta al Discorso Stampato Intitolato il Vero Stato dell’ Ebrei [Response to the Discourse Entitled The True State of the Jews]. * 2) Discorso Teologico circa la permisse dell’usure all’Ebrei [Theological Discourse about the Permissibility of Usury to Jews]. * 3) Sacra Congregazione Levaminis Romana … de Univers. Hebreorum [Addressed to the Sacred Roman Congregation…from the Jewish Community]
summary
These documents are consultations or representations to the “Holy See” concerning the right of Jewish bankers in Rome to lend money at interest. See Leon Poliakov, Les Banchieri Juifs et le Saint-Siège du XIIIe au XVIIe siècle (1965)
1) pp. (13) + 3 integral blanks. * 2) pp. (15) + 1 integral blank. * 3) pp. (7) + 1 integral blank. Browned. Brown ink on stiff paper. Disbound. Folio
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