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Or 11257

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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11257
Title:
Ketubah, 1747, Gorizia (Italy)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
1 sheet
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11257 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1747
End Date:
1747
Date Range:
1747
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CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11257

Ketubah, 1747, Gorizia (Italy)

Contents

Marriage contract.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-1v
Title: כתובה
Title: Ketubah

The date of the Ketubah: "ברביעי בשבת ארבעה לחודש ניסן שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושבעה לבריאת העולם ... פה ק"ק גוריציאה". The groom's name is Shemuʾel bar Mordekhai ʿIr Ḥadasha' (= Cittanova?) (שמואל בר מרדכי עיר חדשה), and the bride’s name is Ḥanah bat Gershom Hefets (חנה בת ... גרשם חפץ נ"ע).

Signed by the groom and two witnesses: Jacob ben Barukh and Mordechai ben Solomon Norzi (מרדכי בן לא"א שלמה נורצי)....

The text of the Ketubbah is written on the right side, and on the left side is an addition to the Ketubah: the tenaʾim (conditions).

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment sheet of 18th the century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 680 × 454 mm.
Dimensions (written): 280 × 340 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

N/A

Condition

Usage stains, stiff parchment.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 35 36

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 18th century.

Right column: Italian Hebrew square script, left column: Italian Hebrew cursive script.

Decoration

Coloured drawings in the frame: Zodiac signs, ark of covenant with two cherubs, etc.

Additions:

Binding

Boxed with two other ketubot (Or 11256 and Or 11258).

Title on box: 'Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,256-11,258.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1747 Italy (Gorizia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on the inner side of the box lid: 'Presented by B.P. Scattergood, Exq. 11 Oct. 1930.'.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11257 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    G. Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1899-1935, 1977, 4 vols), vol. IV, p. 161.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL