[Marriage contract of Esther] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Ketubah

Contributor:

Menagen, Yehoshuʻa ben Yitsḥak, active 17th century (witness)

Date:

1641

Language:

Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Mazal Ṭov, ha-Leṿi, 17th century Marriage; Ketubah; Jewish law; Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law); Marriage (Jewish law)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : cropped, unevenly cut, verso is blank; orn., dev., micrography

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Contains the bottom eight lines, with decorative blessings surrounding the text and eight lines of micography in the remaining empty space at the bottom.; These include more details and conditions of the betrothal. The date appears here. The left rule is filled by stretching characters.; The bridegroom is Mazal Tov ha-Levi. The document is signed at the bottom of the Ketubah, and again at the bottom of the Additional Conditions: Joshua ben Isaac Menagen. Mazal Tov is a common male name in 17th century Italy.; The name R. Joshua Menaghen appears in the index of Italian Rabbis, M. Mortara: Mazkeret ḥakhme Iṭalyah / Marco Mortara. Padua : F. Sacchetto, 1886, p. 39, and is signed as an owner of ms. Berlin Ham. Qu. 687 fol. 183.; Aramaic and Hebrew Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 372

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)