315394A.036-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: 1815
container: label: Container
content: Box 5
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; fragment.  Date: Friday, ? 5575 (1815).  Groom: "Joseph, son of Nissim Zerahiyah of blessed memory"  Bride: "Jamaliyyah, daughter of ? Zerahiah"  Lower portion missing.  The parchment has an arched top. The top of the gable is scalloped. Teh cecoratin of paper applique, similar to 315394A.2, is lost. The text was set within a rectangle, in cursive. Introductory blessings and well-wishes are written in large Hebrew script above the text. At a later date, a cursive Hebrew inscription was written in the upper portion, copying the portion of the text damaged by water.