[Letter by Raphael Yom-Tov Ashkenazi] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

[Letter to Shelomoh Belforte and his friends]

Name:

Ashkenazi, Refaʼel Yom-Tov

Date:

1862

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Ashkenazi, Refaʼel Yom Tov (inscription)

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Relation:

The Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047

Subject:

Ashkenazi, Refaʼel Yom Tov Correspondence; Rabbis -- Italy -- Correspondence; Bilforṭi, Shelomoh Correspondence; Ashkenazi, Nissim Abraham ben Raphael, 1790?-1860; Rabbis

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Correspondence; Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folded leaf; 28 cm

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Related Place:

Turkey -- İzmir.; Italy -- Livorno.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Bluish lined stationary, 42.4 X 27.5 cm., folded to 21.2 cm. X 27.5 cm. Address and postmarks on right side of leaf. Recto is blank.; Pertains to the printing of Naʼeh le-hodot by Rabbi Nissim Avraham Ashkenazi of Izmir, the writer's uncle, and the purchasing and printing of additional books from the publisher.; Letter dated 21 Elul 622 [16 Sept. 1862]. Postmarks dated "16 Sept. '62, Smyrne, Turquie" and "21 Set. 1862, Livorno". In a separate hand, inscription of date of receipt, "Ottobre 2, 1862".; Supplied title taken from auction catalog.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.; CJS copy purchased at Kedem Auction House, 6 Nov. 2012 (lot 462).; Chiefly Sephardic semi-cursive script with some Italian.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, MS000, Box 5, MM52

Collection:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund