Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Emissary Letter Signed by the Rabbis of Safed – For the Emissary to the Inner Maghreb (Morocco) – Safed, 1912
Large handwritten certificate, with the signatures of seven Sephardic rabbis of Safed. Safed, [Cheshvan 1912].
Neat Oriental semi–cursive (Rashi) script, with headings and emphasized words in square script. Certificate for R. Rachamim HaKohen, emissary to the cities of Inner Maghreb (Morocco), authorizing him to collect all funds designated for the Kollelot of Safed.
With the calligraphic signatures of R. Chaim Menashe Sithon (signature–stamp), R. Avraham Chai Mizrachi, R. Shlomo Mizrachi, R. Chaim Edery, R. Eliyahu Rachamim Antebi, R. Rachamim Mizrachi and R. Yeshuah Vaish. Stamps.
[1] double leaf. 53.5 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains. Folding marks. Wear and tears to folds, affecting text (professionally repaired with paper). Open tear, with loss to blank quarter of leaf (repaired with paper).
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 057.011.013.