315394A.027-marriage contract
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Cohen, Henry, Reverand
label: Collection Donor
content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
label: Collection Donor
content: Harris, Michael
label: Collection Donor
content: Deinard, Ephraim
label: Collection Donor
content: Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940
label: Collection Donor
content: Luchs, Leopold
label: Collection Donor
content: Lipkowitz, Sylvia E.
label: Collection Donor
content: Marks, Michael Neil
label: Collection Donor
content: Marks, Cara Goldberg
label: Collection Donor
content: Howland, S. S.
label: Collection Donor
content: Hartogensis, Henry S.
label: Collection Donor
content: Krauss, S., Father
label: Collection Donor
content: Kantrowitz, J.H.
label: Collection Donor
content: Neeman, Zipora
label: Collection Donor
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 1: Documents
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1806
container: label: Container
content: Box 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A marriage contract issued in  Damascus, isncribed in ink onparchment. The contrat is decorated with red, yellow and green gouach. Date: Wednesday, 14th of Nissan 5566 (1806).  "Benjamin, son of Nissim Ha-Kohen Mosoli(?)" Bride: "Karfiyyah, daughter of Mordecai Bezini" Dowry: 1500 grush. Witnesses: Galante and Samuel Duweik Ha-Kohen.  The parchment is rectangular with an arched and scalloped upper edge. The text is set out in cursive within a pointed arch. In the space below the tetxt are stylized trees painted in yellow and green gouache. Teh side margins are decorated with a  frieze of alternating triangles in green? (blue?) gouache.  The upper portion is decorated with two large flowers in pink, flanked by two smaller yellow flowers. A bud-shaped finial is attached to the top of the gable with string. Introductory blessings and well-wishes are inscribed in square letters above the text.