Ketubah, Livorno, Italy, 1822 19 November : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Padoa, E., signer.

Pardo Roques, Abraham, active 19th century, signer.

Meldola, David, 1797-1853, signer.

Coen, Samuele, signer.

Zucker, Benjamin, 1940- donor.

Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Italian

Subjects (All):

Livorno (Italy)--19th century--Religious life and customs.

Livorno (Italy).

Manuscripts, Aramaic--Italy--Livorno--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Aramaic.

Genre:

tuǧras.

Ketubahs.

Manuscripts.

pen and ink drawings.

pen and wash drawings.

illuminated manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Donated to the Penn Libraries by Benjamin Zucker, 2025 (formerly Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection, KET Z116).

Physical Description:

1 sheet : parchment, illuminations, ink ; 45 x 31 cm

Production:

Liṿorno, 6 Kisleṿ 5583 [1822 20 November]

ליוורנו, ו' כסלו ה'תקפ"ג

Language Note:

Aramaic; second portion (Tenaʼim) in Hebrew; autographs and additional writing in Italian.

Summary:

Illuminated ketubah on parchment, created in Livorno, Italy, Wednesday, 6 Kisleṿ 5583 (November 20, 1822); the text of the upper portion containing the names is washed off. Autographs of rabbinical overseers Samuele Coen (two Italian and two Hebrew tuǧra autographs); David ben Refael Meldola (later of the Spanish and Portugese Community, London); and Abraham Pardo Roques. Final Ketubah addition in Italian, dated Livorno, 3 December 1822, undersigned "E. Padoa".

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.

Three municipal seals of the city of Livorno in the outer corners.

Written in a formal Sephardic cursive script, in multiple hands.

Decoration: Frame patterns of stenciled birds (in blue goache) and geometric hexagonal crosses in greens; border text (from Ruth IV:11 and Proverbs XVIII:22); upper vignette with a floral and scroll border around the text בסימנא טבא ובמזלא מעליא.

OCLC:

1547756762