Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
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Ketubah. Kashan, Isfahan province, Iran, Nissan 1834.
Colorful decorated ketubah, one of the earliest extant ketubot from Kashan; possibly the earliest. The text of the ketubah occupies the center of the leaf, with rhyming verses above it in two columns. The texts are enclosed in a rectangular frame comprising additional blessings in alphabetical order, colored in orange; topped with a multifoil arch. The edges are filled with large floral and foliate ornaments, colored in orange and green. Additional verses of blessings form a frame around the entire leaf.
Signed by the writer and witness Moshe son of R. Yissachar, followed the signatures of the other witnesses and an addition in Judeo–Persian (in Hebrew characters).
Approx. 57X42 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear, creases and folding marks. Tears and open tears, affecting text and ornaments, repaired with paper.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.050.
Colorful, illustrated ketubah in booklet format. Mashhad (Iran), 12th Elul 1894.
Elaborate ketubah, with (Islamic) floral designs in the margins in hues of gold, red, blue and purple. Booklet format, comprising six written pages, signed by the writer at the end. Other signatures.
[4] leaves (6 written and illustrated pages + parchment paper between leaves for protection). 21.5 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Folding marks. Tiny tears to folds. New binding.
Exhibition:
• The Ketuba. An Exhibition of Jewish Marriage Contracts. December 1–18. Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, 1975, p.62–63.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.003.
Ketubah. Hamedan (Iran), 15th Cheshvan 1896.
Woodblock floral and bird ornaments surrounding ketubah text.
Witnesses' signatures at foot of ketubah.
Approx. 44X35 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Tears, slightly affecting text, repaired with paper. Folding marks.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.337.
Ketubah. Damascus (Syria), 15th Tammuz 1898.
The text of the ketubah is scribed at the foot of the leaf within a rectangular frame containing verses of blessings. A large flowerpot surmounts the frame, with flowering branches covering most of the ketubah. Two additional flowerpots flank the ketubah text. The leaf is framed with a floral border. The flowerpots and corner ornaments are made from cutouts backed with gold colored paper.
With additional conditions undertaken by the groom, in following with the Damascene rite.
Approx. 45X65 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Framed; not examined out of frame.
Provenance: Private Collection.
Large ketubah. Jaffa, 26th Tishrei 1907.
Oriental script. Colorful flower illustrations pasted to the upper part of the ketubah.
Groom's signature at the foot of the ketubah, in the center, flanked by the signatures of the two witnesses: R. Yosef Arouas, Sephardic rabbi of Jaffa (calligraphic signature), author of Hod Yosef; and R. Yosef Ben Simchon, educator and rabbi in Jaffa.
54 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Folding marks. Tears along folds, slightly affecting text, professionally restored. Flower illustrations peeling and damaged.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.048.
Ketubah with decorated border. Asfalou (Morocco), 21st Adar 1880.
Lacking witnesses' signatures.
[1] leaf. 31 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Many tears and folding marks, affecting text. Mounted on paper.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.122.
Ketubah recording the marriage of the groom Avraham son of Yosef son of Elisha son of Yosef son of Yekutiel son of Mordechai Berdugo, to the bride Simcha daughter of Yosef son of Yissachar son of Yosef Adahan. Salé (Morocco), 10th Kislev 1895.
The ketubah is written on a form printed in bold hues of green and gold, decorated with an architectonic design featuring a large arch. Priestly hands are depicted on both sides of the arch, with typical Moroccan and North African ornaments. A kiddush goblet and jug of wine are depicted in the lower border.
The Tena'im are incorporated in the body of the ketubah, and include the groom's commitments to the bride: not to marry another wife without her consent, not to relocate to another city apart from Rabat without her consent, etc. The Tena'im follow the rite established in Fez by the Spanish exiles.
At the foot of the Tena'im, witnesses' signatures: Eliyahu Benmoyal, David Sabbah.
The groom belonged to the Berdugo family, which was known as a prominent dynasty of rabbis, dayanim and halachic authorities, active in Meknes and other Moroccan cities since the 17th century.
62.5X48 cm. Fair–good condition. Creases and folding marks. Minor tears to center of ketubah, professionally restored. Lower part cut, with several open tears, repaired in part with paper on verso. Some stains. Large piece of paper (48X22.5 cm) pasted on verso to lower third.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.109.
Ketubah with colorful floral border. Ait Ali Oussou (Morocco), Kislev 1923.
Calligraphic signatures of the witnesses at the foot of the ketubah, followed by a Tosefet ketubah signed by the witnesses and the groom.
36 cm. Fair condition. Stains (including transfer of paint from ornaments to lower part of ketubah), folding marks and wear.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.329.
Ketubah recording the marriage of the groom Yitzchak son of Avraham Ashkenazi, to the bride Bilhah daughter of Yosef Gino. Haifa, Rosh Chodesh Elul 1928.
The ketubah was written on a colorful, printed form, depicting an architectonic structure with two gateways surmounting a rectangular frame. The form was published in Vienna by Joseph Schlesinger; publisher's name and addresses in Vienna and Budapest in lower margin.
At the foot of the ketubah text, witnesses' signatures on the right and left: Sh. Ben Shabbat (?) and Eliyahu Manin (?), with the groom's signature in the center, on a 10–mil revenue stamp of Mandatory Palestine.
70.5X50 cm. Fair–good condition. Many folding marks, tears, some stains and wear.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 035.011.130.