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Auction 35 · Lot 145

A Chi Professa Legge d’Honore [To Whomever Professes the Honored Law]. A legal case concerning a Hebrew named Felice Vigevano who failed to appear before the Justice of Ferrara

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(ITALY)

Place

n.p.

Publication

1674

summary

The Vigevanos were a family of prominent Italian Jewish bankers. A Rabbi Gershon Vigevano served as Rabbi of Guastalla in the early part of the seventeenth century. See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), pp. 57-59, 63, 213, 218, 223, 228 267
pp. (4). Folio
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