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Or 9631

Record Id:
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9631
Title:
Ketubah, 1642, Pisa (Italy)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 sheet
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1642
End Date:
1642
Date Range:
1642
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Hebrew
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CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9631

Ketubah, 1642, Pisa (Italy)

Contents

Marriage contract.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: כתובה
Title: Ketubah

The groom's name Isaque Zaquto (יצחק זאקוטו ב"ר משה זאקוטו) and the bride's name Blanca bat Moses Tsadiḳ de Leon (בלאנקא בת ... משה צאדיק די ליאון).

Signed by the Abraham Israel Cardoso, Abraham Suarez (in Latin script) and Benjamin Babli (בנימן בבלי) (in Hebrew script).

Column right is the ketubah, column left contains the conditions.

The date of the ketubah: ברביעי בשבת י"ב יום לחדש חשון שנת חמשת אלפים וארבע מאות ושלש לבריטת עולם ... פה פיזה.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment sheet of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 710 × 650 mm.

Condition

Usage stains, tears, holes, lower part of the left side has been torn off; loss of text.

Layout

Columns:2

In two columns; in both columns beneath the Hebrew text, there are additional notes in Italian.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script and Latin (Italian) cursive scripts of the 17th century.

Decoration

Two columns text are in between decorated arches. The figure of blindfolded Amor is in the tympanum at the top.

Binding

Housed in a codex binding (dimensions: 385x325).

History

Origin: 1642 Italy (Pisa)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on the last back flyleaf verso: 'Bought of Dr. I. Sonne. 31 Aug. 1925.'

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_9631 (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), vol. IV. p. 159.

Funding of Cataloguing

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