Introduction letter for an Algerian rabbi and emissary
מכתב אודות שד"ר מארג'יל
- Creator
- Meldola, Raphael, 1754-1828 (correspondent, scribe)
- Jona, Solomon Michel, -1811 (addressee)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- letters of introduction
- letters of introduction
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1775
- Language
- Hebrew
- Subject
- Ibn Nayim, Yaʻaḳov, -1803
- Rabbis -- Italy -- Livorno -- 18th century -- Correspondence
- Rabbis -- Italy -- Turin -- 18th century -- Correspondence
- Rabbis -- 18th century -- Travel -- Algeria -- Algiers
- Collection
- Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund
- Extent
- 1 leaf : paper ; 23 x 21 cm
- Notes
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.
- Item creased and with a stain at left margin.
- In Hebrew.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sephardic-Italian rabbi from Livorno (ordinated by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, 1796); hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britian and rabbi of the Bevis Marks Synagogue, London, after 1805; works include Ḳorban minḥah and Ḥupat ḥatanim.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3st7g01b
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 692
- Provenance
- Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 140 (22 February 2023) item 242.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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