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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.
Passover Haggadah with German Translation
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One of Charlotte von Rothschild’s most outstanding works is the only known nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript to have been illuminated by a woman.

Contributor:

Charlotte von Rothschild

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Passover, Holidays, Illuminated manuscripts, Life cycle, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Decorated page framed with foliate design featuring two angels on left and right, Hebrew text in middle, and lions on bottom register.