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.