A collection of 220 Jewish marriage contracts from Italy, dating from the beginning of the 16th to the middle of the 19th centuries has been presented to the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem by Dr. Ephraim Chamitzer, of Haifa. All the manuscripts are written on parchment and beautifully illuminated.
This is Dr. Chamitzer’s second gift to the Library. The first, made some ten years ago, consisted of a rare collection of Hebraica and Orientalia, which included some very rare works. Both collections came from the library of the donor’s father, the late Dr. Mordechai Ben-David Chamitzer, a noted Jewish scholar and Orientalist of Leipzig.
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