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Or 12377 R

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032-003450705
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Or 12377 R
Title:
Ketubah, 1680
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:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1680
End Date:
1680
Date Range:
1680
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Diamante bat Ismael of Camerino
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Moses ben Shabtai of ...
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12377 R

Ketubah, 1680

Contents

Jewish marriage contract dated 1680, Senigallia.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-1v
Title: כתובה
Title: Ketubah

The bridegroom is Moses ben Shabtai of ... (משה בן שבתי מלריפה), the bride is Diamante bat Ismael of Camerino (דיאמנטי בת ישמעאל מקאמירינו).

Main text begins: בשני בשבת ארבעה עשר יום לחדש תשרי שנת חמשת אלפים ת'מ'א' לבריאת עולם ... פה סיניגאלייא ... על כיף ימא ועל נהרי פיננא ניבולא וציסאנו .

Quotations in the arch around the text of the ketubah are for instance from Isaiah 62.

Physical Description

Parchment sheet of the the 17th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 1010 × 675 mm.

Condition

Usage stains, folding lines, liquid damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 26

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Images of towns, monuments and Holy Land sites with captions within a floral border: Bethlehem, Tower of David the Temple, the prison courtyard where Jeremiah was kept captive, etc. On the very top in a medallion: Hebron with the tombs of the Patriarchs and a peacock. On the lower register on two sides of the main text biblical locations: Gilgal, Laishah (Isaiah 10:31), and Makedah (Joshua 15:40) on the left side, and Eglon (Joshua 15:39), Levonah (Judges 21:19), and Bet El on the right side.

Binding

In melinex. In a box with 18 other documents.

History

Origin: 1680 Italy (Senigallia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1644; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12377_R (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Berger, Pamela, The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 267-268.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL