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jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
inquisition -- italy -- history -- sources.1
illustrated works (manuscripts).1
letter books -- specimens.1
manuscripts, english -- 17th century -- texts.1
sefirot (cabala) -- early works to 1800.1
manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.1
hebrew poetry -- texts.1
hebrew letters -- texts.1
cabala -- early works to 1800.1

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London (England)2
Ferrara (Italy)1
Ancona (Italy)1

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Jacob Ben Samuel1
Olmo, Jacob Daniel Ben Abraham (1690-1757)1
Hastings, Theophilius (1650-1701)1
Ben Samuel, Jacob1
7th Earl of Huntingdon1

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From 16001
From 17001

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Up to 16991
Up to 17991

Archive Judaica File

[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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