Sivlonot and nuptial procedures for the marriage of Shemuʼel ben Mosheh Anav and Raḥel bat Yitsḥaḳ Ungar : manuscript.
סדר סבלונות וקדושין לחופת שמואל בן משה עניו עם רחל בת יצחק אונגר.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Anav, Shemuʼel ben Mosheh--Marriage.

Ungar, Raḥel bat Yitsḥaḳ--Marriage.

Ketubah.

Ashkenazim--Italy--Padua--16th century--History--Sources.

Ashkenazim.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Local Subjects:

Anav, Shemuʼel ben Mosheh--Marriage.

Ungar, Raḥel bat Yitsḥaḳ--Marriage.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Removed from a printed copy of Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340. Even ha-ʻezer ([Sabbioneta], Tobias Foa, Israel Cornelius Adelkind, 1553), folio 94.

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 27 x 18 cm.

Production:

[Padua?], 20 Ṭevet 5347 [31 December 1586].

[פאדובה?], עשרים יום לחודש טבת שנת השמ"ז.

Other Title:

opening text: he-ʻerar ḥ.ṿ. u-b.ʻa. she-im yeʻerar ḥ.ṿ. u-b.ʻa. ha-ḥatan ke.r. Shemuʼel be.ke.r. Mosheh Anaṿ Y.ts.ṿ. tokh shanah rʼishonah aḥar ha-ḥupah ...

opening text: הערר ח"ו וב"ע שאם יערר ח"ו וב"ע החתן כ"ר שמואל בכ"ר משה ענו יצ"ו תוך שנה ראשונה אחר החופה ...

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

The Anav (Anavim) family, also known as De Mansi or Dellmansi Piatell, were an Italian rabbinic lineage descending from Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome (including Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ben Benjamin of Rome, author of Tanya Rabati).

Summary:

Document of ketubah addition composed for the marriage of Shemuʼel ben Mosheh Anav and Raḥel bat Yitsḥaḳ Ungar stipulating the division of prenuptial funds, dowry, and rights of survivorship of the groom and bride's property; the first word of the document, as well as the writing of the date suggests that this document was attached to an earlier document of Tenaʼim (engagement); the document also contains vacant fields for sums (never filled). The procedures were to follow the edicts of the community of Ashkenazim (line 4 terminus; this indicates that it took place in an Italian city with an Ashkenazic court, possibly Padua; marriages between Ashkenazic or Sephardic with Italian families often followed the customs of the side submitting a larger portion of the dowry). The stipulations include the husband’s eventual ownership of the bride's dresses and jewelry, as well as her rings and engagement gifts (Sivlonot), and the ketubah addition (for a first marriage) in the Ashkenazic custom; sums precipitated in case of a (Beth Din) suit brought by the groom during the first, second, and third years of marriage; the groom’s obligation to achieve financial independence after the second year of marriage; the groom’s brother’s to abjure levirate (Yibum) for Halitsah (according to the Ashkenazic custom), as well as the groom's obligation to return the bride's jewelry and effects indiscriminately, and concluding that the Sivlonot were strictly given as romantic gestures and gifts (and not a transfer working as Kidushin).

Notes:

Written in 43 long lines, in an Ashkenazic semicursive script (likely in a scribal hand).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Sivlonot and nuptial procedures for the marriage of Shemuʼel ben Mosheh Anav and Raḥel bat Yitsḥaḳ Ungar (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 699). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1426313111