The practice of decorating marriage contracts was revived in early
seventeenth-century Amsterdam under the influence of Italian
ketubah artists. In the late 1640s, the well-known Jewish engraver
Shalom Italia created a copper engraving for ketubot of the
Spanish-Portuguese community, which subsequently inspired an
anonymous local artist to create a new modified version of this
border, present in this Braginsky Collection ketubah of 1668. For
more than two hundred years this border adorned Sephardic ketubot
produced in Hamburg, Bayonne, London, New York and Curaçao.The
calligraphic text commemorates the marriage of a known Sephardic
physician, Daniel Tzemah Aboab.
Place
Preferred form
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Original form
Amsterdam
Other form
Amsterdam, Baruch ben Schemaria
Amsterdam, copied and decorated by Hijman Binger
Amsterdam, copied by Meir Cohen Belinfante, decorated by Isaac Siprut
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Duyk Pieters dochter in het St. Catharinaconvent te Amsterdam (1e helft 16e eeuw)
