Ketubah (Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/3)
Ketubah of Esther bat Menaseh? [...] and Jacob ben Elijah Debaḥ(?); dated Cairo, Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/3
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 2108/3
- Title: Ketubah
- Alternative Title(s): כתובה; Marriage contract
- Date of Creation: Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602 [= 29 September 1841]
- Language(s): Hebrew and Aramaic
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Note(s):
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].
- Extent: 1 sheet Leaf height: 543 mm, width: 400 mm.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Document
- Condition:
Conserved in 2017 by Sarai Vardi at the John Rylands Library.
The very top of the ketubah is torn off.
- Accompanying Material:
In the same box with 8 other ketubot, see Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/2, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/4, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/5, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/6, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/7, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/8, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/9, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/10.
- Script:Oriental cursive script
- Layout:
Long line with 31 written lines.
- Decoration: 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.
- Origin:
Produced in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602 [= 29 September 1841].
- Provenance:On the back: Handwritten in pencil "H 2108/3 A.S.".
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Nienke Valk.
Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:Silvestri, Stefania. "From Calcutta to Tarcento: Jewish marriage contracts from the collections."Rylands Blog. Published 17 December 2021.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/3
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 2108/3
- Title: Ketubah
- Alternative Title(s): כתובה; Marriage contract
- Date of Creation: Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602 [= 29 September 1841]
- Language(s): Hebrew and Aramaic
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Note(s):
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].
- Extent: 1 sheet Leaf height: 543 mm, width: 400 mm.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Document
- Condition:
Conserved in 2017 by Sarai Vardi at the John Rylands Library.
The very top of the ketubah is torn off.
- Accompanying Material:
In the same box with 8 other ketubot, see Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/2, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/4, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/5, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/6, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/7, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/8, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/9, Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/10.
- Script:Oriental cursive script
- Layout:
Long line with 31 written lines.
- Decoration: 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.
- Origin:
Produced in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday 14 Tishri 5602 [= 29 September 1841].
- Provenance:On the back: Handwritten in pencil "H 2108/3 A.S.".
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Nienke Valk.
Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:Silvestri, Stefania. "From Calcutta to Tarcento: Jewish marriage contracts from the collections."Rylands Blog. Published 17 December 2021.
