Printed Marriage Contract on paper. Text According to Karaite Custom. In two parts in accordance with tradition, Shetar Nissuin and Shetar Kidushin.

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00
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Lot 624
(KETHUBAH)

Printed Marriage Contract on paper. Text According to Karaite Custom. In two parts in accordance with tradition, Shetar Nissuin and Shetar Kidushin.

With decorative surround of gold and red, geometric patterns and congratulatory text. Unused Rebacked. 620x910 mm

(Printed in Odessa: by M. Beilinson 15th March 1894)

Est: $2,000 - $2,500
This is not a traditional Rabbinic Kethubah, but a Karaite Marriage Contract. The Jewish sect of Karaites adhered only to the Written Law (as opposed to Rabbinic Oral Law). Significantly, this Kethubah, like other Karaite deeds, is in Hebrew rather than Aramaic. See S. Sabar, Ketubbah (1990) no.199 for another example, several decades later