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Bidding Information
Lot #    9186
Auction End Date    2/15/2005 10:05:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Decree by R. Zur, Serero, Zarfati, Monsonego
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר אבן צור, סירירו, מונסונייגי, זמרא, צרפתי
Author    [Ms.]
City    Fez
Publication Date    1842
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [2] pp., 222:176 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on paper, neat Moroccan script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description
   Bet Din decree signed by:

R. Jacob b. Mattathias ha-Kadosh ("the holy Mattathias") (c.1769-1851), was a rabbi and dayyan in Fez. One of seven children, his rulings survive in manuscript. The Serero family were Spanish scholars who settled in Fez after the Expulsion, bringing their considerable library with them;

R. Jacob b. Solomon Samuel Ibn Zur (c.1780-1850) was a dayyan in Fez and signed Yavetz, his rulings survive in manuscript;

R. Jedidiah b. Raphael Aaron Monsonego (d.1867), rabbi and kabbalist, authored over 40 works in Halacha, kabbalah, and liturgy all still in manuscript;

R. Rahamim Hayyim David Ibn Zimra, (d. 1848), rabbinical scholar and dayyan in Fez;

R. Vidal Zarfati (1797-1856) rabbinical scholar and dayyan in Fez, many of his rulings survive in manuscript.

          
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   Malkei Rabonun
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Morocco
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Decree
  
Kind of Judaica