Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Illustrated Ketubah – Herat, Afghanistan, 1898

Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Ketubah recording the marriage of the groom Nuriel ben Netanel, with the bride, Yocheved bat Ya'akov Chaim. Herat, (Afghanistan), Elul 1898.
Ink and paint on paper. Scribal writing.
Ornamented architectural frame around text, and simanim in alphabetical order. Witnesses' signatures inside cartouches at the bottom of the Ketubah.
Approximately 46X57 cm. in a frame. Wear and tear. Not examined out of the frame.
Ketubot and marriage documents
Ketubot and marriage documents