Manuscript ID:
MS ACC 998
Place:
Smyrna and Nazilli, Turkey
Date:
1894, 1895, 1911
Description:
ink on paper; 2 broadsides; (a) 66.8 x 49.8 cm.; (b) 62.2 x 45.6 cm.; printed and Turkish cursive Hebrew script
Subject:
Ketubah
English Text:
These large Turkish marriage contracts on very thick paper have printed decorative architectural
borders, the first in red and the second in green; both of the printed borders have similar motifs
and iconography.
(a) a ketubah dated 1895 from Smyrna, between Joseph Taragan ben Jacob and Mazal Tov,
daughter of Hasdai; the back of this ketubah has a settlement in Judeo-Spanish dated 1911;
(b) a ketubah dated 1894 from Nazilli (in Western Anatolia), between Aaron Damankari ha-Levi
ben Abraham and Tarasiyah daughter of Hasdai.
Manuscript Link:
https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1009732683