Marriage Contract. Text in brown ink, on vellum, Italian square Hebrew script. Uniting members of the Canton and Sullam Families

AUCTION 2 |
Tuesday, June 03rd,
1997 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal
Lot 177
KETHUBAH.
Marriage Contract. Text in brown ink, on vellum, Italian square Hebrew script. Uniting members of the Canton and Sullam Families
Mantua: 10th Kislev, 1756
Est: $45,000 - $50,000
PRICE REALIZED $40,000
Magnificent Kethubah decorated in the Venetian style. All the participants were members of prominent aristocratic Italian Jewish families.
The Canton Family financed in 1532, the building of the “Scuola Canton” the second oldest synagogue in Venice.
Jacob Saraval (1707-1782) was a man of letters and a musician, he was appointed Rabbi of Mantua in 1752. Among his correspondents were Jacob Emden and Benjamin Kennicott. (For detailed presentation of other distinguished personages relating to this Kethubah, see S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977) index).
Members of the Canton(i) and Sullam families reside in Venice and Mantua to this day