Regolamento stabilito per l'università degli ebrei di Reggio [Regulations established for the Jewish community of Reggio]. Venice: Guglielmo Zerletti, 1770. Italian and some Hebrew.
Booklet of regulations of the Jewish community of Reggio, North Italy, containing eleven clauses related to the social, commercial and economic life of the community.
The booklet ends with the excommunication issued by rabbis Israel Benjamin Basan and Shimshon Chaim Nachmani against any member of the community who will disobey the regulations: "Any man or woman who will intentionally disobey the rules in this book […] will be excommunicated and a serpent shall bite him, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him […]".
XIII pp, 22 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and minor creases. Marginal tear to last leaf, marginal open tear to title page (not affecting text). Bound with a string in new wrappers (stains to wrappers).
Not recorded in OCLC.
From the estate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn.