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Ketubah : [Gibraltar], [17 March 1875].
כתובה : [גיבראלטר],
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 602
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Aramaic
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).
- Ketubah--Specimens.
- Ketubah.
- Sephardim--Gibraltar--19th century--History--Sources.
- Sephardim.
- Gibraltar--Religious life and customs.
- Gibraltar.
- Jews--Gibraltar--19th century--History--Sources.
- Jews.
- Ḥasan, Ḥayim ben Mosheh--Marriage.
- Abucassin, Platta bat Ḥayim--Marriage.
- Local Subjects:
- Ḥasan, Ḥayim ben Mosheh--Marriage.
- Abucassin, Platta bat Ḥayim--Marriage.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Aramaic -- 19th century.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century.
- ketubahs.
- autographs (manuscripts)
- calligraphy (visual works)
- illuminated manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- GIFT FROM THE MOLDOVAN FAMILY COLLECTION By Joseph T. Moldovan C'76 and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment, ink, manuscript, illuminations.
- Place of Publication:
- [17 March 1875].
- [י' אדר שני תרל"ה].
- Language Note:
- In Aramaic and Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This is a ketubah (a Jewish marriage contract) on parchment, written and signed in Gibraltar, 10 Adar II 5635 (Wednesday, 17 March, 1875). The groom was Ḥayim, son of Mosheh Ḥasan; the bride was Platta, daughter of Ḥayim Abucassin (אבוקצין); the bride's dowry was 600 [Spanish] pesos, to which was added the evaluated 600 pesos of chattel, with an additional gift of land valued at 600 pesos; under the stipulation of the removal and return of the full sum, the groom vowed (under a halakhic form of legal stipulation, "תנאי בני ראובן ובני גד" (line 12)) to never marry additional women, and to never remove her from Gibraltar against her will; ketubah signed (and possibly written by) Shalom Conquy (קונוקי), hazzan of the Nefusot Yehuda Synagogue (also known as La Esnoga Flamenca, or the Flemish Synagogue). Written in nineteen lines (blind ruled) in a scribal Spanish-Moroccan semicursive script; opening text and first word in calligraphy (opening with black lacquer gilt, first word with blue lacquer gilt); חי in calligraphy at center. Item decorated and illuminated (paint and gouache): gold crown (a closed crown topped with three pedals over a sapphire; illuminated pearls over four arcs, with rubies placed at monde inférieur, and patterned gold-white-blue at the lower sphere); furling ribbons (blue and red) below crown and below text; flowers surrounding text.
- Notes:
- Opening text: be-Simana ṭava uve-mazala yeʼaya uve-shaʻat ratson ṿe-hatslaḥa.
- Opening text: בסימנא טבא ובמזלא יאייא ובשעת רצון והצלחה.
- Cited as:
- UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 602.
- OCLC:
- 1368012584
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