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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25708

Shelfmark:

Halper 372

Title:

Marriage contract of Esther

Ketubah

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

Mon. May 24, 1641

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Aramaic and Hebrew

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

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

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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

Keyword:

Jewish law

Ketubah

Antenuptial contracts (Jewish law)

Marriage (Jewish law)

Marriage

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420503503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3v40kh8r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania