315394A.034-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: 1814
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.  The contract is decoarted with applied paper.  Date: Tuesday, 24th of Adar 5574 (1814).   Groom: "Yehuda son of Nathaniel Zerahiya"  Bride: "Mazal, daughter of Raphael Zacah (?)"  The parchment is rectangular withan arched top. Teh arch is scalloped. The text is writenin cursive and set within a pointed arch.  Introductory blessings and well-wishes are written in large square script above the text, within parallel liens. The text is surrounded by decorative applied paper, similar to 315394A.2, forming an arch.  The parchment was cut down at a later date. The names of the witnesses are missing.