(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,600

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

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George Bramereau

Place

Avignon

Publication

1660

Description

Du Mandement de Monseigneur Illustrissime & Reuerendissme Vice-Legat d’Avignon, & a la Requeste de Messieurs les Creantiers de la Communaute des Carrieres des Juifs de l’isle & Cavaillon... [Decree at the order of his Holiness regulating the debts of the Jews of Cavaillon and the Island with those of Carrières]

references

Not listed by Szajkoski, Franco-Judaica

summary

Though excluded from France, in this earlier period the Jews were allowed to live in the Comtat Venaissin (Papal enclave in Southern France). They formed four communities; Avignon, Carpentras, Cavaillon and L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. The Comtat Venaissin belonged to the Papacy up untill the French Revolution

Single printed folio leaf. Framed

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