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Ketubah (Hamburg)
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On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Teixeira de Mattos Senior in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1690

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ketubot, Life cycle, Marriage, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Law, Legal Documents
Page of Aramaic text surrounded by ornate illustrations, including couple under wedding canopy at the top of the page with many well-dressed people around them and two angels flying overhead, and two women on pedestals on either side of the bottom of the page on either side of a wreath with text inside.
Medical Diploma of Emanuel Colli from the University of Padua
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Emanuel Colli by the University of Padua, Italy. Designed as a small, illuminated book, its four leaves are decorated with floral borders, and include…

Contributor:

Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1692

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Education, Medicine, Profession, Portrait

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Legal Documents, Visual & Material Culture
Facing-page manuscript with left-hand side of three framed images surrounded by flora and birds: the top image of two men holding a book and cup, the middle of man with curly hair and collar, and bottom of a bird; and right-hand side of Latin text surrounded by decorative flora.
Ketubah between God and Israel for Shavuot
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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Kingdom of Italy (Italy)

Date:

17th–18th Century

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Shavuot, Ketubot, Angels, demons & deities, Allegory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Legal Documents, Magical Texts
Page of Aramaic text with illustrations of figure on left side of text holding tablets and figure on right side of text with hat, tents above text, and animals and burning bush below text.