Legal document: Yevr. II K 59

Description

Rabbanite ketubah from Cairo that may have been preserved in the Dār Simḥa Synagogue geniza, although it seems more likely that Avraham Firkovich acquired it elsewhere during his visits to the city in the 1860s. The groom is Avraham Ashkenazi b. Yosef and the bride is Esther d. Shmuel Romano. The scribe was likely Yosef Angel, who also signs on behalf of the groom. The second witness is Elʿazar Maʿalī ha-Kohen. Lines 21-22 state that the groom has a young son Ḥayyīm from another wife, who is unnamed and presumably deceased or divorced from the groom given the common clause against polygamy in lines 23-24 (which is conditional on Esther bearing Avraham a child within the first ten years of their marriage). The witness and potential scribe Yosef Angel also signed the ketubba T-S 16.332 (PGPID 7484), where the unclear part of his signature may be more legible as Avraham(?) but this reading is tentative and requires further comparison. MCD.