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Or 14018

Record Id:
032-003420727
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Or 14018
Title:
Daftar ketubot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
37 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14018 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1861
End Date:
1874
Date Range:
1861-1874
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abraham ben Avigdor ben Azriel
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14018

Daftar ketubot

Contents

Register of marriages held in Calcutta during the years 1861-74.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-37r
Title: דפתר כתובות
Title: Daftar ketubot

It contains 136 marriage contracts of Indian Jewish families in Gorakhpur, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sahebgunj and Rangoon. It gives the names of bride and bridegroom, witnesses and of the registrar.

Ff. 35v-37r: a list of 116 entries of births and circumcisions held during the year 1859-1873.

Compiled by Abraham ben Avigdor ben Azriel; for more about him, see Ohel David, p. 989.

The MS was produced before the Civil Apellate Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, Appeal No. 49 of 1917.

For a more detailed description of the content, see Sassoon, Ohel Dawid.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Blue paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 37 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 200 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Previous pagination in pencil; page references in Ohel Dawid refer to this pagination.

Numerous blank leaves between f. 34 and f. 35.

Collation

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Scribe was Abraham ben Avigdor ben Azriel.

Additions:

F. 37r: addition of death records(?) in pencil, apparently by the compiler himself.

Binding

Post-1600, blue buckram binding.

Sassoon's label on spine: 'סדר כתובות'.

Title on spine: 'Register. Hebrew. Brit. Lib. Oriental MS. 14018.'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1861-1874 India (Kolkata/Calcutta)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired from the Sassoon collection, at the Sotheby's sale in New York, May 1981; lot 48. Date of accession 22 October 1981.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and on Sassoon, Ohel Dawid (1932).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14018 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, D.S., אהל דוד (Ohel Dawid) Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), v. 2, pp. 989-990, no. 828.
    Important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the collection formed by the late David Solomon Sassoon ... : public auction Tuesday May 12, 1981 (New York : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1981), p. 75, lot. 48.

Funding of Cataloguing

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