Manuscript ketubah with standard ketubah text in black ink in Aramaic and Hebrew in Sephardic semi-cursive script. Leaf sides have straight edges save for the top which is tapered, with verses from Scripture in block Hebrew print, colored with gouache by a later hand, surrounding the ketubah text: Proverbs (18:22) straight across the top; Ruth (4:11) extends from tapered top to left column; abridged verse from Ecclesiastes (9:9) in right column with abridged verse from Genesis (49:22) extending to tapered top. Wedding took place on 6 Tishre 5623 (30 Sept. 1862), in Aleppo, Syria. With the unusual presence of only one witness signature.
Language:
Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Yizhak Einhorn, Tel Aviv (National Library of Israel digital facsimile, einhorn124).; Sold at auction at Sotheby's, from the estate of Shlomo Moussaieff, 20 Dec. 2017, lot 112.
Specimens; Ketubahs; Marriage certificates; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century
Physical Description:
1 leaf : parchment, color; 52.1 X 25.5 cm
Geographic Subject:
Syria -- Aleppo; Aleppo (Syria)
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
The wedding took place on the Third day [Tues.] of the week, 6th of Tishre, 5623 [30 Sept. 1862] in the city of Tsovah [Aleppo]. The groom is Avraham b.k.r. ... k. ha-R. Yosef ʻAbadi. The bride is Mazal t.m. bat k.m. ha-R. Shelomoh Neḥmad. Witness: ha-tsaʻir Yitsḥaḳ Dayan, S.ṭ.; Color added to manuscript after 2009, during or after its time in the collection of Yizhak Einhorn.; Aramaic and Hebrew (Sephardic semi-cursive)
Physical Location:
Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 466
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