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Title

Facsimile of LJS 346, Edicts concerning Jews in Mantua

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

3-16-2015

Files

Comments

Official copy of an edict issued by Vincenzo Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, in 1594 renewing privileges and amnesties of the Jews of Mantua, who were allowed to work as bankers, merchants, and butchers. The contemporary edict is preceded by copies of 2 earlier renewals, the first issued by Guglielmo Gonzaga, Vincenzo's father and the previous duke, in Goito in 1587, and the second issued by Vincenzo in 1590. All 3 copies, perhaps written by a chancery scribe, are signed by ducal chancellor Matthaeus Gentilis.

Keywords

Jews--Italy--Mantua--History Codices, Decrees, Manuscripts Italian--16th century, Manuscripts Latin--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4967239

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs346.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 346, Edicts concerning Jews in Mantua" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 126.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/126