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Or 8109

Record Id:
032-003314113
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Or 8109
Title:
Marriage contract
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 folio
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8109 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1711
End Date:
1711
Date Range:
1711
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Sir Charles Hercules Read
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 8109

Marriage contract

Contents

A marriage contract.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Ketubah
Title: כתובה

A marriage contract dated Verona, 5471 (1711), between David Ḥayim ben Shabtai Menaḥem Gerigo and Śarah bat Shimshon ha-Kohen, witnessed by Menasheh ben Ya῾aḳov and Shelomoh ha-Leṿi. Scriptural verses in the margins.

Physical Description

Parchment sheet of 18th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 510 × 410 mm.
Foliation:

1 folio

Collation

1 separate parchment sheet.

Condition

Once stored folded, with ink abraded at creases.

Small stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Title and border text in larger characters, in light brown ink.

Text in the border written within ink ruling.

Pricking is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian square script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1711 Italy (Verona)

Provenance and Acquisition

Sir Charles Hercules Read: presented by him to the British Museum on 10 October 1914: inscribed, folio 1v.

1914-10-10

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_8109 (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. 1175.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL