The contract is signed by four people in very cursive script (groom and witnesses?, though none of them seems to be the groom's name), which is difficult to decipher. The total dowry, including the amount brought to the marriage by the bride and the additions of the groom, is 7000 Ariot? [אריות].<\/p>" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Gaster, Moses 1856-1939" }, { "label": "Alternative Identifier(s)", "value": "Gaster 2108/3" }, { "label": "Decoration", "value": "The text of the ketubah is surrounded by a decorated full border filled with blue painted stripes and black branches with red flowers. In the border above the text of the ketubah, the Aramaic blessing \"בסמנא טבא ומזל טוב\". At the top, an onion dome with lozenges and blue and red stripes. The dome is flanked by two ornamental blue vases with red flowers and green ranks." }, { "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 31 written lines.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602 [= 29 September 1841]" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "
Produced in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602 [= 29 September 1841].<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
Revised and enhanced 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: 543 mm, width: 400 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/3" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
Ketubah of Esther bat Menaseh? [...] and Jacob ben Elijah Debaḥ(?); dated Cairo, Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Hebrew Manuscripts" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "
In the same box with 8 other ketubot, see Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/2<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/4<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/5<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/6<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/7<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/8<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/9<\/a>, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/10<\/a>.<\/p>"
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"value": " Conserved in 2017 by Sarai Vardi at the John Rylands Library.<\/p> The very top of the ketubah is torn off.<\/p>"
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