Ketubah, Safed, Israel, 1882 4 March : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Zucker, Benjamin, 1940- donor.

Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Tsefat (Israel)--19th century--Religious life and customs.

Tsefat (Israel).

Manuscripts, Aramaic--Israel--Tsefat--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Aramaic.

Genre:

Ketubahs.

Paintings.

Watercolors.

Manuscripts.

pen and wash drawings.

pen and ink drawings.

illuminated manuscripts.

tuǧras.

Penn Provenance:

Donated to the Penn Libraries by Benjamin Zucker, 2025 (formerly Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection, KET Z38).

Physical Description:

1 sheet : paper, illuminations, ink

Production:

Tsefat, 13 Adar 5642 [1882 4 March]

צפת, י"ג אדר שנת ה'תרמ"ב

Language Note:

Aramaic; verses in Hebrew.

Summary:

Illuminated ketubah on paper, created in Safed, Israel, Friday, 12 Adar 5642 (March 4, 1882; the written date of 13 Adar fell out on a Saturday), for the marriage of groom Shimʻon, son of Yaʻaḳov Leṿi to bride Rosa, daughter of the deceased Avraham Wolf (the groom was likely Sephardic, and the bride was Ashkenazic).

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.

Written in a Sephardic semicursive script, in a formal scribal hand; upper verse, highlight words, and couple's names written in an Oriental square script. Lines blind-ruled.

Illuminations in watercolor and gouache, inside a closed arch held by opposing pillars (deep greens, blues, and reds, filling the arch formation; acanthus leaves at sides and bottom).

Tuǧras of witnesses at bottom of document (two opposing autographs; the one at the right is crossed through, and at left, "Shalom" is visible).

OCLC:

1546887893