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Bidding Information
Lot #    20831
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 10:31:53 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter to the HIDA
Title (Hebrew)    כתב להחיד'א
Author    [Ms.] R. Is'h Hai Kohen
City    Mantua
Publication Date    18th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 230:170 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on paper, neat Italian rabbinic script, signed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter to the HIDA by R. Aaron Shmuel Hai [I'SH] ha-Kohen in Mantua. R. Kohen owned a factory that produced woolen garments and was visited by the HIDA. The HIDA mentions him in his work Magel Tov (Livorno 1879) p. 80.
          
Reference
Description		    History of the Jews in Mantua p. 309
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica