315394A.047, Marriage contract
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Cohen, Henry, Reverand
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content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
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content: Harris, Michael
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content: Deinard, Ephraim
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content: Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940
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content: Luchs, Leopold
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content: Lipkowitz, Sylvia E.
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content: Marks, Michael Neil
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content: Marks, Cara Goldberg
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content: Howland, S. S.
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content: Hartogensis, Henry S.
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content: Krauss, S., Father
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content: Kantrowitz, J.H.
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content: Neeman, Zipora
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content: Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923
label: Collection Donor
content: Sulzberger, S.
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content: Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection
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content: Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection / Series 2: Sinkmats
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1821
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content: Flat-file 315394A.047
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: A marriage contract inscribed in ink on parchment and decorated with yellow, green and blue watercolors, issued at Ancona, Italy.  Date: Wednesday, 2nd of Tevet 5582 (Dec. 26, 1821).  Groom: Mordecai Nissim, son of Issaac Menahem Cingoli.  Bride: Regina, daughter of Sahbbtai Hayyim Treve.  Witnesses: ABraham ben Jacob Isarel Musati and Abraham Isreall ibn Azariah.  The tenaim are written in cursive below the text. The text is written in square letters. The parchment is rectangular with a cusped upper edge. The text is set within a red arculated frame.  A foliate scroll fills the margins surrounding the text. Teh scroll contains blue, yellow and red acanthus leaves interpersed with simple and composite flowers.  A wreath in the center of the scroll on the lower margin is composed of a frontal female bust. She wears a laurel diadem. In the upper portion is a floral cluster painted in green, yellow and blue. Above the floral cluster is a scroll cartouche containing the standard wedding blessing, "With a good sign and with exalted luck." Along the edges of the parchment is a strapwork border painted in red.