Auction 66 - Rare and Important Items
Large Emissary Letter on Parchment from the Hebron Community – Signed by the Rabbis of the City – Hebron, 1924
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Letter of appointment as emissary on behalf of the Hebron community, on a mission to Persia, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, signed by the rabbi of Hebron – R. Menachem Suleiman Mani, and other rabbis in the city: R. Chanoch Hasson, R. Meir Shmuel Castiel and R. Meir Franco. Hebron, 1924.
Handwritten on a large parchment leaf in square scribal script with enlarged, emphasized words. At the foot of the text, the signatures of the rabbis with their official stamps.
Written for the emissary R. Abba Yair, setting out on a mission on behalf of Hebron to the region of Iran, Iraq and Kurdistan, and to Syria and Lebanon. The emissary letter lists all the places he would be visiting.
[1] large parchment leaf. Height: 34 cm. Width: 50 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, folding marks, several tears to folds.
Handwritten on a large parchment leaf in square scribal script with enlarged, emphasized words. At the foot of the text, the signatures of the rabbis with their official stamps.
Written for the emissary R. Abba Yair, setting out on a mission on behalf of Hebron to the region of Iran, Iraq and Kurdistan, and to Syria and Lebanon. The emissary letter lists all the places he would be visiting.
[1] large parchment leaf. Height: 34 cm. Width: 50 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, folding marks, several tears to folds.
Jerusalem and Eretz Israel – Letters and Documents
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