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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, Law

Categories:

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.
Ketubah of Isaac de Pinto and Rahel Rovigo
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In 1654, Rahel bat Hannah Rovigo married Isaac ben Abraham de Pinto, a member of a prosperous Jewish family of merchant bankers in Amsterdam. The ketubah (marriage contract), which outlines the…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1654

Subjects:

Ketubot, Marriage, Women, Halakhah, Sephardic, Law

Categories:

Law, Legal documents, Cartooning & graphic art
Page of Aramaic text framed by flora and small pictorial scenes with human figures, with linked hands and heart at top center.
Takkanot (Regulations)
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Since D. Bendito has done us the favor of prevailing upon his highness, the Duke of Modena, to allow us into his state with such love and grace…

Contributor:

The Sephardic Community of Reggio

Places:

Reggio, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Date:

1654

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Finance, Sephardic, Law

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes