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Or 2458 A-C

Record Id:
032-003313993
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Or 2458 A-C
Title:
Collection of marriage and divorce contracts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
5 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2458_A-C (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1754
End Date:
1769
Date Range:
1754-1769
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolph Neubauer
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2458 A-C

Collection of marriage and divorce contracts

Contents

A marriage contract (ketubah) and two divorce contracts (get).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-5v
Title: Ketubot ve-geṭ
Title: כתובות וגט

A: Paper fragment recording the appointment of delegates charged with the delivery of a get to a woman about to be divorced. Dated 5514 (1754). (see fols. 1r-1v on digital surrogate)

B: A marriage contract on parchment, between Shemu᾿el ben Avraham and Raḥel bat David, signed in Damavand, 5529 (1769). (see fols. 2r-3v on digital surrogate)

C: A divorce document on paper, by which Leṿi ben Numdar (?) divorces Śarah ben Benyamin. The date is 5514 (1754). (see fols. 4r-5v on digital surrogate)

Physical Description

Parchment and paper leaves of 18th century.
Form: leaf
Material: mixed
Support: Parchment and paper.
Extent: 5 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230/210 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

5 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 33 at the end). No foliation, instead the documents are marked as A, B, and C, arranged from left to right.

Collation

5 separate leaves, bound together.

Condition

Encrustations, stains and mould mottling.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 25

Written lines: 21 25

Non-uniform layouts.

Hand(s)

Persian square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Tracts. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. Ms. 2458. A-C.'

History

Origin: ; Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolph Neubauer: purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 June 1882: inscribed, front flyleaf (ii)r.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2458_A-C (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 1097.

Funding of Cataloguing

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