Description of University of Pennsylvania CAJS Rar Ms 465: Marriage contract University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS Rar Ms 465: Marriage contract are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2020 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The wedding took place on the Sixth day [Fri.] of the week, 14th of Nisan, 5633 [11 April 1873] in the city of Ṭeverya. The groom is Menaḥem ʻAṭyas ben ha-manoaḥ k. ha-r. Shaʼul ʻa. h. The bride is Miryam t.m. bat k. ha-r. Refaʼel Azʻari. Witnesses: ha-tsaʻir Yitsḥaḳ Avraham Baḳiria, S.ṭ. [?]; ha-tsaʻir Mosheh ha-Kohen S.ṭ. 420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703 University of Pennsylvania Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS Rar Ms 465 9977243198003681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1023864971 Manuscript ketubah with standard ketubah text in black ink in Aramaic and Hebrew in Sephardic semi-cursive script with floral decorations around the text. Decorative border in gouache with colorful floral and geometric patterns and verses from Scripture in block Hebrew print in the supporting columns: verse from Proverbs (18:22) enclosed in top border; abridged verse from Ruth (4:11) in right border; verse from Genesis (27:28) and abridged verse from Ruth (4:12) in left border. Wedding took place on 14 Nisan 5633 (11 April 1873), in Tiberias, Israel. Aramaic and Hebrew Marriage contract witness Baḳiria, Yitsḥaḳ Avraham witness Mosheh ha-Kohen former owner Einhorn, Yizhak former owner Moussaieff, Shlomo

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 1 leaf : 33 X 41 cm 5633 (1873) Formerly owned by Yizhak Einhorn, Tel Aviv (National Library of Israel digital facsimile, einhorn073). Sold at auction at Sotheby's, from the estate of Shlomo Moussaieff, 20 Dec. 2017, lot 112. Menaḥem ʻAṭyas ben Shaʼul--Marriage Miryam t.m. bat Refaʼel Azʻari--Marriage Ketubah--Specimens Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law) Marriage (Jewish law) Tiberias (Israel) Ketubahs Marriage certificates Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century