Three parchment ketubot from Italy:
1. Parchment ketubah, recording the marriage of the groom Yaakov Menachem son of Yisrael of della Volta, to the bride Mazal Tov daughter of Zerachya Chai. Mantua, 1767. Signed by the witnesses: "Shlomo Refael son of R. Zerachya Chai", "Yekutiel Chaim son of R. Hillel Katz". 37X36 cm.
2. Parchment ketubah, recording the marriage of the groom Avraham Yosef son of Eliezer Almansi, to the bride Dolce Perna daughter of David Yehuda Levi-Mortera. Viadana, 1768. 44X34.5 cm.
3. Parchment ketubah, recording the marriage of the groom Shimshon "known as Ercole" son of Yisrael Shimshon Calabrese of Mantua, to the bride Vittoria daughter of Yisrael Ravà. Reggio, 19th Tevet 1866. Signatures of the witnesses: "Yitzchak Shimshon son of Yeshaya Malach" (a posek in Reggio); "Yaakov son of R. Mordechai Levi". 14.5X34.5 cm.
Three ketubot. Condition varies, good-fair.
From the estate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn.