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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.
Ketubah with a Depiction of Jerusalem
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from Padua, Italy, marks the marriage of Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen me-ha-ḥazanim (“of the cantors,” or Cantarini) and Colomba bat David Aziz. The groom was a…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1732

Subjects:

Ketubot, Illuminated manuscripts, Marriage, Family, Profession

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Page of Aramaic text surrounded by many images and decorations, including zodiac symbols, scenes of figures and animals, cherubs, Hebrew words around margins, and vines and flowers.