315394A.048, 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
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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.048
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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 Isaac Menahem Cingoli.  Bride: Regina , daughter of Shabbtai Hayyim Treve.  Witnesses: Abraham ben Jacob Isreal Musati and Abraham Israel ibn Azariah.  The tenaim are written in cursive below the text. The text is set within a red arculated frame. A foliate scroll fills the margins surrounding the text. The scroll contains blue, yellow and red acanthus leaves interspered 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.