Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures

Decorated Parchment Ketubah – Algiers, 1842

Opening: $300
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
Ketubah for the wedding of David son of Avraham HaKohen Solal and Aricha daughter of Moshe HaKohen Solal. Algiers, 5602 [1842].
Colorful decorated frame, with floral and geometric patterns. Sephardic semi-cursive script. At beginning of ketubah, verses of blessing in large letters.

28 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Folding marks. Tears to folds and other places, affecting text. Minute holes in upper margin from a lost decoration formerly woven in (like other contemporary Algerian ketubot, where the upper decoration was woven in a dome-like shape). Inscriptions and stamp.
Ketubot and Jewish Marriage Customs
Ketubot and Jewish Marriage Customs