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LOT 5:
Ornamented Ketubah on Parchment – Tunis, 1835
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Ornamented Ketubah on Parchment – Tunis, 1835
Ketubah recording the marriage of the groom Shimon son of R' Yosef Nataf with the bride Sultana daughter of R' Eliyahu Nataf. Tunis, 1835.
Parchment, gouache, ink.
Characteristic frame with floral ornamentation. The text of the ketubah is written in square script. On the margins are additions regarding the dowry in cursive writing. Calligraphic witnesses' signatures [undeciphered].
35X50 cm. Fair condition. Stains, creases and folding marks, tears and damages in several places (restorations with glued pieces of parchment on back of ketubah).
This ketubah appears in the book HaKetubah B'Iturim, by David Davidowitz, Bat Yam 1979, p. 78 (picture on opposite page).
