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

(KETHUBAH)

by M. Beilinson

(Printed in Odessa

15th March 1894)

With decorative surround of gold and red, geometric patterns and congratulatory text. Unused

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