Marriage Contract. Manuscript in Hebrew composed in minute Sephardic cursive Hebrew script on paper of arched form. Uniting Menachem ben Moshe of the city of Bucharest and his bride Perla bath Ya’akov HaLevi.

A rare Kethubah from Kyustendil, a town located in the far west of Bulgaria, 50 miles southwest of the capital city of Sofia. In the 16th-century this town had a small Jewish community. In 1878 when Bulgaria gained its independence, the community numbered 853.