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Or 8149

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Or 8149
Title:
Ketubah, 1646
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_8149 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1646
End Date:
1646
Date Range:
1646
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CE
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Or 8149

Ketubah, 1646

Contents

Jewish marriage contract dated 1646, Ancona.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-1v
Title: כתובה. אנקונה, איטליה. ת"ו
Title: Ketubah. Anḳonah. 406

Marriage contract from Ancona, 1646. The bridegroom was Menaḥem, son of Mordecai Durante, the bride was Elisheva, the daughter of Azariah Ezra.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment sheet of the 17th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 780 × 490 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Was trimmed off to fit into the book binding; cf. folding lines. Currently in two parts.

Usage stains, worm damage, folding lines, corners, some of the margins have been trimmed off.

Text is faded, signatures are hardly visible.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 22

Hand(s)

Sefardi Hebrew square script of the 17th century.

Decoration

In full floral border; the upper part is currently detached.

Additions:

Binding

In melinex. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1646 Italy (Ancona)

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly was used as cover to the boards of vol. I Mishneh Torah, Venice 1524 (shelfmark: 1941.e.6.)

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_8149 (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. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL