{ "viewingDirection": "right-to-left", "metadata": [ { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "
The contract is signed by the groom in the centre and two witnesses, whose signatures are hardly legible.<\/p>
The total dowry, including the amount brought by the bride, which in this case is only household objects, into the marriage and the addition made by the groom, is 600 Pesos Fuertes [פיזוס פ'ואירטיס מטבע איספאנייא].<\/p>" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Gaster, Moses 1856-1939" }, { "label": "Alternative Identifier(s)", "value": "Gaster 1653" }, { "label": "Decoration", "value": "The text of this ketubah is written on the centre of the vellum. Around the text is a painted large oval shaped pattern of green leaves, green tendrils and blue and violet flowers. This pattern is interrupted at the bottom by a pink and blue bow ribbon with gold paint and at the top by a very large golden crown with a pink interior and blue, green and pink precious stones. Below the crown is a blessing in Aramaic in larger characters. The first part of the contract is also in larger characters." }, { "label": "Acquisition", "value": "Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954." }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Ketubah" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "
Long line with 22 written lines.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Wednesday 8 Heshvan 5658 [= 3 November 1897]" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Gibraltar" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "
Produced in Gibraltar, on Wednesday 8 Heshvan 5658 [= 3 November 1897].<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
Revised by Zsófia Buda.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "כתובה; Marriage contract" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Hebrew and Aramaic" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 sheet Leaf height: 667 mm, width: 515 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Gaster Hebrew MS 1653" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
Ketubah of Donna Florens bat Isaac ben David ben Levi Casis and Abraham ben Isaac ben Abraham ben Judah Coriat (Gibraltar, Wednesday 8 Heshvan 5658). <\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Hebrew Manuscripts" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "