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Ink and paint on paper.
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Decorated Ketubah – Alexandria, Egypt, 1843 – Signature of Rabbi Shlomo Chazan
Opening: $300
Sold for: $2,375
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Decorated paper ketubah. Alexandria, Egypt, 19th Tamuz 5603 [1843].
Ink and paint on paper.
Ketubah on paper sheet, with upper edge decoratively cut. Ketubah and Tena'im (in Oriental cursive script) in center, inside a decorated frame. Signatures of groom (at center, in Latin characters) and witnesses at edge.
On right side, calligraphic signature of "Shlomo Chazan" – R. Shlomo Chazan, Rabbi of Alexandria, who also appears to have written the entire text of the ketubah. The other witness: "Elisha Karpi".
R. Shlomo Chazan (d. 1855) was a leading Egyptian Torah scholar, who succeeded R. Yedidiah Shlomo Yisrael as Chief Rabbi of Alexandria (in 1831). He was a halachic decisor, Torah disseminator of books, including the biographical HaMaalot LiShlomo.
Approx. 28X39 cm. Overall good condition. Creases and folding marks. Several tears, slightly affecting illustration at top of ketubah.
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