The contract is signed by the groom (on the right-hand side) and two witnesses, whose signatures are not fully decipherable at this stage.<\/p>
The total dowry, including the amount brought to the marriage by the bride and the additions of the groom, is 100 Liras Turcas Ariot [ליראס טורקאס אריות].<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Former Owner(s)",
"value": "Gaster, Moses 1856-1939"
},
{
"label": "Decoration",
"value": "This ketubah is decorated with a hand-painted double frame. The text is in a decorated frame filled with green painted stripes and purple and violet flowers. The top part of the document is decorated with four gilded semi-circles and four gilded quarter-circles (on the corners) which include green, purple and violet tendrils. In the centre a oval gilded shape frame the representation of trees on a field. The top of the document has an onion dome with red frame and green tendrils; the top of the dome is torn from the paper.
Gilded gilded biblical verse and blessing in Aramaic preceed the main text of the contract."
},
{
"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 13 written lines.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Tuesday 19 Av [Menaḥem] 5630 [= 16 August 1870]" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Piri Paşa (בכפר פירי פאשה) in Constantinople, today in modern Turkey" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "
Produced in the neighbourhood of Piri Paşa (\"בכפר פירי פאשה\") in Constantinople, today in modern Turkey, on Tuesday 19 Av [Menaḥem] 5630 [= 16 August 1870]. <\/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: 880 mm, width: 565 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Gaster Hebrew MS Add 36" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
Ketubah of Ventura bat Hayyim ha-Cohen and Joseph ben David ha-Cohen; dated Constantinople, in a village near the city, Tuesday 19 Av [Menahem] 5630).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Hebrew Manuscripts" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "