Ketubah de-irkesa: [Modena, Italy], [1825 October 18].
כתובה דאירכסא : [מודינא, איטליה],

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Modena, Aharon Menasheh b. Avraham David, signer.

Ḥai Ṭeleo, Grazia Mazalṭov b. Shemʻayah, signer.

Modena, Buonaventura, (Mazalṭov b. Shimshon Yaʻakov), witness.

Sanguinetti, Azariah Ḥayyim, active 19th century, witness.

Karp, Abraham J., former owner.

Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

מודונא, אהרן מנשה בן אברהם דוד.

חי טיליו, גראציא מזל טוב בת שמעיה.

מודינא, מזל טוב בן שמשון יעקב.

סנגויניטי, עזריה חיים בן יום טוב. active 19th century, witness.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Ketubah.

Italy--Modena.

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).

Ketubah--Italy--Modena--Specimens.

Modena (Italy)--Religious life and customs.

Modena (Italy).

Genre:

Specimens.

Ketubahs.

Autographs (manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 197 x 236 (185 x 212) mm

Place of Publication:

[1825 October 18].

[ו' מרחשון תקפ"ו].

Language Note:

In Aramaic; various Hebrew words.

Summary:

This is a manuscript ketubah written in Modena for a Beth Din ceremony reissuing a destroyed ketubah based upon the testimony of Aharon Menasheh b. Avraham David Modena, husband, and Grazia Mazalṭov b. Shemʻayah Ḥai Ṭeleo, wife; the custom originates from a tradition that one was first written by Gershom ben Judah of Mainz (ca. 960-1040; a Sephardic and various Ashkenazic versions of the text of the Ketubah de-irkesa had developed by the later Middle Ages; irkesa, אירכסא, is Aramaic for lost). This manuscript is written in the Sephardic version, and also follows the Sephardic custom which only allots the original sum of the first ketubah to the wife (Ashkenazic custom follows Joseph Colon that a ketubah reissue must add to the amount originally allocated; see Isserles, gloss to Even ha-ʻezer 66:3; Colon, Responsa 116). The original ketubah was dated 5 Heshvan 5568 (November 5, 1807) and signed by Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen (1723-1811, rabbi of Modena) and Mazalṭov b. Shimshon Yaʻakov Modena (who signed this ketubah as well; this is Buonaventura Modena, a poet from Modena); in place of Ishmael ha-kohen, Azariah Ḥayyim Sanguinetti signed as witness. Written in an Italian square script with two lines around text, script flesh-side; bottom appears to have been torn off; prickings at both margins.

Notes:

Original archival number written in pencil (verso).

Cited as:

UPenn Karp BI.27.

OCLC:

1287950632