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Book/Printed Material The Book of the Hebrews. Liber ebreorum

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Title

  • The Book of the Hebrews.

Other Title

  • Liber ebreorum

Summary

  • Manuals or notarial protocols are books used by Catalan notaries since the 13th century to register in accurate chronological order all notarized acts. Some notaries opened special books in which they collected one type of document. Presented here, for example, is a book maintained by a notary in Cardona, in south-central Catalonia, used exclusively for recording legal acts relating to the Jewish inhabitants of the village. On its pages, written in Latin, are found extracts concerning the acknowledgement of debts, procurements, contracts, donations, and payments. Analysis of the notarial contracts in the manual shows that the Jews of Cardona were engaged in making interest-bearing loans, which under Jewish law they were allowed to offer to Christians but not to other Jews. Christians were technically forbidden to charge interest on loans. Most of the documents are acknowledgments of debts incurred by other residents of the village. The crude ink drawing that illustrates the back cover of the manual, possibly made at a later period, shows a devil seizing two individuals identified as Jews, alongside another character who could be a pope.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1314-06-08 to 1315-06-23]

Headings

  • -  Spain--Catalonia--Cardona
  • -  1314-06-08 to 1315-06-23
  • -  Banks and banking
  • -  Credit--Management
  • -  Jews
  • -  Money
  • -  Notaries

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 64 folios ; 320 x 220 millimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Catalonia.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668003

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

The Book of the Hebrews. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -06-08 to 1315-06-23, 1314] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668003/.

APA citation style:

(1314) The Book of the Hebrews. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -06-08 to 1315-06-23] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668003/.

MLA citation style:

The Book of the Hebrews. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -06-08 to 1315-06-23, 1314] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668003/>.