Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Parchment ketubah, for wedding of Yosef son of Yom Tov Chamawi and Simchah daughter of Yitzchak Chamawi. Aleppo, Syria, 13th Nisan 5639 [April 6, 1879].
Ink and paint on parchment.
Ketubah on small, rectangular parchment sheet with upper edge cut into a triangle, as a sort of pediment over a pair of pillars. Ketubah text in Sephardic cursive text, with seven words enlarged and written in hollow square letters and colored in purple and green. Edges surrounded by verses of blessing also written in large, hollow square letters, in matching colors. Signatures of witnesses on edge of ketubah text.
23X32.5 cm. Overall good condition. Some stains and moisture damage, slightly affecting text. Small hole.
For a similar ketubah, see: Sabar (2022), II, no. 306 (KET 161).
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Ketubot
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Decorated paper ketubah, for the wedding of Shmuel son of Chaim and Nakhat daughter of Yehoshua. Tehran, Iran, 11th Nisan 5642 [March 31, 1882].
Ink and paint on paper.
Ketubah on large rectangular parchment sheet, decorated with many bright colors in colorful Arabesques, vegetal patterns and gold and silver. The ketubah text appears within narrow oval frames, with an additional sum added to the ketubah with signatures of "Avraham son of Baba", followed by signatures of the groom (to the right) and witnesses. Pink decorative paper ribbons mounted on margins.
51X80 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Many old folding marks and tears to folds – all professionally restored.
This ketubah is also documented on the NLI ketubah site, listing 990003035510205171.
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Ketubot
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,063
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Decorated paper ketubah, for the wedding of Shmuel son of Chaim (Esfahoni) and Chanah daughter of Nisan. Tehran, Iran, 27th Tevet 5654 [January 5, 1895].
Ink and paint on paper.
Ketubah on large rectangular paper sheet, decorated with many colors in vegetal patterns, gold and silver. Ketubah text appears within rectangular frames (some with pointed edges), concluding with signatures of groom (to the left) and witnesses (one of whom signs with an ink stamp). On verso of sheet appears an additional sum added to the ketubah, dated Iyar 1896, with signatures of witnesses.
Decorative red paper ribbons mounted on edges.
51.5X83.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, mainly to upper part. Many old folding marks, and tears to folds – all professionally restored.
This ketubah is also documented on the NLI ketubah site, listing 990003035520205171.
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Ketubot
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Decorated paper ketubah, for the wedding of Yitzchak son of Yaakov Akajani and Zivar Khanom daughter of Reuven Chaviv Chaim Akajani. Sanandaj (Sinna), Iranian Kurdistan, 19th Elul 5698 [September 15, 1938].
Ink and paint on paper.
Ketubah on large paper sheet decorated in bright shades of red, orange and with gilt decorations. Most of the ketubah is covered with decorations in vegetal patterns and verses of blessing, in the characteristic style of 19th-20th century Sanandaj. The ketubah text appears on the bottom, with signatures of witnesses on edge. The top of the ketubah contains a declaration that the marriage and ketubah will be void if the bridegroom apostatizes, signed by the groom and another witness.
50X64.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Thick paper. Stains. Many creases. Tears and folding marks, professionally restored.
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Ketubot
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Decorated parchment ketubah, for the wedding of Yaakov son of Moshe son of Shem Tov Sequeira and Chanah daughter of Avraham son of Yitzchak son of Moshe son of Yitzchak son of Yeshuah son of Yitzchak HaLevi. Lisbon, Portugal, 4th Tamuz 5692 [June 29, 1892].
Ink and paint on parchment.
Ketubah on large parchment sheet decorated with a large, colorful flower arrangement, an elegant crown and fabric ribbons, with initials of the names of the groom and bride written at the bottom in Latin characters. Ketubah decorations very similar to ketubot produced in Gibraltar in the last decades of the 19th century, attesting to the link between both communities. The ketubah text follows the rite of the exiles from Spain. Signatures of groom and witnesses at edge of ketubah text.
60X70 cm. Overall good condition. Some creases and stains. Minor damage to paint.
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Ketubot
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Decorated paper ketubah, for the wedding of Avraham son of Moshe HaLevi and Rosa daughter of Yosef Shabtai Tajir of Sofia. Kyustendil, Bulgaria, 3rd Elul, 5656 [August 12, 1896].
Ink and paint on paper.
Ketubah on a very large paper sheet, with the upper part illustrated meticulously with two gilt decorations, a crown with flower arrangements, a Star of David inscribed within a circle with various permutations of letters and a pair of birds. The ketubah text appears in Sephardic cursive script, to the right, with signatures of witnesses Rachamim Yisrael Berechiah and Menachem son of Yehudah HaLevi at the edge. To the left appears the Tenaim text, signed by the same witnesses, with the dowry below signed by Rachamim Yisrael Berechiah.
A Jewish community existed in Kyustendil since the 16th century; at the beginning of the 20th century it was inhabited by 1,200 Jews.
59.5X86.5 cm. Overall good condition. Many folds. Some stains. Tears, mainly to upper part and across folds, professionally restored. Gilt decorations at top partially lacking.
Only one ketubah from Kyustendil is documented on the NLI ketubah site, from the JTS collection (KET 250).
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Ketubot
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![Decorated paper ketubah. Rodosçuk (Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey, 18th Iyar 5665 [May 23, 1905].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/201_1.jpg "Decorated Ketubah – Rodosçuk (Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire, 1905")
![Decorated paper ketubah. Rodosçuk (Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey, 18th Iyar 5665 [May 23, 1905].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/201_2.jpg "Decorated Ketubah – Rodosçuk (Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire, 1905")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,625
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Decorated paper ketubah. Rodosçuk (Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey, 18th Iyar 5665 [May 23, 1905].
Ink and paint on paper; woodblock printing.
Ketubah on a thick, rectangular paper sheet with a pointed protrusion at top part. Most of the area of the ketubah is filled with decorations and verses of blessing, while the margins and the center are decorated with colorful repeating vegetal patterns printed from woodcuts. The ketubah text appears in the bottom third, with signatures of groom and witnesses.
40.5X63.5 cm. Overall good condition. Light moisture damage, slightly affecting paint. Creases, minor tears and folding marks, professionally restored. Tear approx. 5 cm long, affecting ketubah text (repaired). Pen trials to margins and verso of ketubah.
The NLI ketubah site documents only five ketubot from Tekirdağ.
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Ketubot
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Decorated ketubah on parchment, for the wedding of Yaakov son of Shraga Favel Tackle and Pirchah daughter of Shalom Yosef Mangil. Calcutta, India, 18th Iyar 5675 [May 2, 1915].
Ink and paint on parchment.
Ketubah on rectangular paper sheet designed in characteristic Indian ketubah style, with verses of blessing in two pointed arches at the top and the ketubah text at the bottom. Edges decorated in gold and colorful illustrations.
Signatures of groom at edge of ketubah text (in the center, he signs in Latin characters as "Jacob F. Tackle"). The witnesses are "Eliyahu Moshe Dweck HaKohen" [rabbi of the Magen David community in Calcutta for over 50 years, editor of the Perach newspaper of the Baghdad community of Calcutta and founder of his own Hebrew press in the city] and "Yehudah Shlomo[?] Yehudah".
34X51.5 cm. Overall good condition. Thick paper. Some stains, mainly to margins, and some marginal tears.
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Ketubot
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