315394A.026-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.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection
label: See more items in
content: Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection / Series 1: Documents
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1803
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, inscribed in ink on  parchment.  The contract is decorated with paper applique. Date: Friday, 1st of Iyar 5563 (1803). Groom: "Mordecai, who was called D'nah, son of Abraham" Bride: "SArah, daughterr of Jacob Romano"  dowry: 1200 grush.   Witnesses: Galante and the Young Mordecai Perez.  The contract is rectangular with a scalloped arch on its upper edge.  The text is written in cursive script. Introductory well-wishes and blessings are inscribed in large square letters above the text.  Teh contract is decorated with paper applique forming an arch aroudn the text. The paper is simialr to 315394A.2.  A finial, attached with string, appears at the center of the top of the contract.