Mah Tovu Ohalecha Yaakov – printed leaf, with a handwritten letter of appointment signed by the Sephardic rabbis of Tiberias. Tiberias, [1872].

Stationery with the verse Mah Tovu Ohalecha Yaakov and an illustration of the R. Meir Baal HaNes synagogue and Beit Midrash, with the Sea of Galilee in front of them. The letter of appointment itself is in Oriental semi-cursive script, with words emphasized in square script.

The present letter appoints R. Avraham Moshe Delima and R. Meir Rubens as officials of the Pekidim VeAmarkalim society in Amsterdam, and is signed calligraphically by R. Shimon Abadi and R. Refael Maman. Besides them, R. Chaim Shmuel HaKohen signed (in first position) with an ink stamp, next to two official stamps of the Sephardic rabbis of the R. Meir Baal HaNes Beit Midrash and the kollels of Tiberias.

[1] double leaf. 30 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Minor tears to margins and folds.

Stationery appears to have been printed in Jerusalem, 1867, by Avraham Rottenburg and his son-in-law Yoel Moshe Salomon – see on a similar leaf, Sh. Halevy, no. 747.