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[Deed, 1760 May 8, of the estate of Samson Morpurgo].
[שטר מכירה, כ"ג אייר תק"כ, חזקת הבתים של שמשון מורפורגו].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Beth Din (Ancona, Italy).
- Language:
- Aramaic
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Rabbis.
- Deeds.
- Italy--Ancona.
- Italy.
- Morpurgo, Samson ben Joshua Moses, 1681-1740--Estate.
- Morpurgo, Samson ben Joshua Moses.
- Deeds--Italy--Ancona--18th century.
- Rabbis--Italy--Ancona--Estate.
- Dinei mamonot.
- Inheritance and succession--Italy--18th century.
- Jews--Italy--Ancona--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Deeds.
- Insignias (devices)
- Autographs (manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.
- Physical Description:
- 4 leaves : paper ; 285 x 195 (230 x 146) mm
- Production:
- Anḳona, May 8, 1760.
- Language Note:
- Hebrew; various words in Italian and Aramaic (all in Hebrew characters).
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript deed of sale of the entire estate of Samson b. Joshua Moses Morpurgo (1681-1740, rabbi and physician in Ancona), composed by a scribe on behalf of the Beth Din of Ancona. Morpurgo's son in law, Yoḥanan ben Ḥayim Yonah ʻAziz (likely Assis), was deemed heir to the property and had been living there, and Yosef (known as Giuseppe Leon) Morpurgo, Samson Morpurgo's son, was the purchaser. A section (ביאר) describes the exact parcel of land, rooms and construction, placement of the stairway, neighbors, and portion facing a courtyard in the Jewish ghetto of Ancona called the Capo De Monte. Signatures of the two witnesses, Avraham Malʼakh and Shemuʼel ben Matsliaḥ Kohen follow the text (f. 3v).
- Notes:
- Ms. document.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, 4; 1² 2²; modern foliation in pencil [1-4], lower left recto.
- Layout: Written in 35-36 long lines, blind ruled at margins. Sections marked by catchwords at outer margins; catchwords at bottom of each side.
- Script: Written in an Italian semicursive script.
- Decoration: Beth Din insignia drawn inside flourishes (f. 1r); linear designs filling in final line of paragraph at the completion of each section.
- Binding: Original sewing (gold thread).
- Origin: Written in Ancona, Italy on May 8, 1760, in a secretarial hand (on behalf of the Beth Din).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Karp BI.25.
- OCLC:
- 1287940474
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