- Object Name:
- Marriage Contract
- Place Made:
- Senigallia (Italy)
- Date:
- 1837
- Medium:
- Ink and paint on parchment
- Dimensions:
- 24 5/8 × 16 5/8 in. (62.5 × 42.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- The Rose and Benjamin Mintz Collection
- Accession Number:
- M 199
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One of the essential elements of a Jewish wedding ceremony is the writing and signing of a marriage contract, or ketubbah. The inscriptions in the borders are from Psalms 128:3, reading "They wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, round about thy table."
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.