Marriage Contract. Manuscript in Hebrew composed in Sephardic cursive Hebrew script on paper of stylized arched form.

(KETHUBAH)

Vidin, Bulgaria

1862

Decorative borders with prominent Star-of-David.

Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria close to its borders with Serbia and Romania.The fortress of Judaeus, which was rebuilt in the vicinity of Vidin by Justinian I (527–65), confirms the presence of Jews at that time (Procopius of Caesarea (6th century) War with the Goths, Dewing translation, 1954, B. IV. VI. 21). The number of Jews in Vidin at the end of the 19th century was some 1,500.