Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

A marriage contract (ketubah) and two divorce contracts (get).

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2458 A-C
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2458_A-C
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A marriage contract (ketubah) and two divorce contracts (get).

Notes

• Encrustations, stains and mould mottling.
   

Extent

5 folios; 5 folios

Support

Mixed

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Tracts. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. Ms. 2458. A-C.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 25; written lines: 21 25; Non-uniform layouts.

Script

Persian square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolph Neubauer: purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 June 1882: inscribed, folio [ii recto] (fs002r).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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