Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, dated 4th of Tishre 5631 (1870) at Tehran. Text inserted into nine registers. Below the text, several registers remain empty. There is an additional wider, decorative register above the text that contains traditional blessings for the wedding couple. This register is known in Iranian as the �sar lowh�. Above the sar lowh are three decorative registers containing acronyms, which are most likely blessings for the bride and groom. The text is enclosed in a long rectangular decorative border composed of a blue, gold, silver, and brown stylized vine motif.
Description:
Bride: Ester bat Pinhas., Bridegroom: Asher ben Baba(?)., and Witness: Yitshak ben Yisra'el; and two others.
Subject (Geographic):
Tehran (Iran) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Asher ben Baba, Ester bat Pinhas, and Yitshak ben Yisra'el
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Tehran --Iran and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink on paper, dated 3rd of Marh[eshvan] 56[5]2 (1891) at Teheran. Small parts of original text torn. Text inserted into six registers. Below the text, several registers remain empty. There is an additional wider, decorative register with a silver background above the text that contains traditional blessings for the wedding couple. This register is known in Iranian as the �sar lowh�. Above the sar lowh are three decorative registers containing acronyms, which are most likely blessings for the bride and groom. The text is enclosed in a long rectangular decorative border composed of a silver, green, and orange stylized vine motif. The entire document is enclosed in a red border made of a kind of tissue paper that is pasted onto the document, in a manner traditional for Iranian ketubot.
Description:
Bride: Nurigan bat Rahamim., Bridegroom: Yosef ha-Kohen ben [?] ha-Kohen., and Witness: 'Akiva ben Binyamin; [?] Yosef ben Yitshak; and two others.
Subject (Geographic):
Tehran (Iran) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
'Akiva ben Binyamin, Nurigan bat Rahamim, Yosef ben Yitshak, and Yosef ha-Kohen ben ha-Kohen
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Tehran --Iran and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, dated 5th of Sivan 5665 at Teheran (1905). The text is set in even rectangular panels, each panel enclosing about four or five lines. The names of the bride and groom and the statement ""according to the laws of Moses and Israel"" are written in large Hebrew block letters; the rest of the text is written in a semi-cursive script. The text is framed by a floral panel on the right side. There is an additional decorative panel above the text that contains traditional blessings for the wedding couple. This panel is known in Iranian as the sar lowh. Along the left side is additional text, which most probably enumerates additional financial arrangements between the bride and the groom, signed by six witnesses. The marriage document itself is signed by five witnesses.
Description:
Bride: Sultan bat Shim'on Ya'akov. and Bridegroom: Ravi ben Aharon.
Subject (Geographic):
Tehran (Iran) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Ravi ben Aharon and Sultan bat Shim'on Ya'akov
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Iran --Tehran and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)