Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. a 3/41

Description

Ketubba dated 15 September 1847 CE (5 Tishrei 5608 AM) from Tangier for Ḥayyim Naḥmias b. Avraham b. Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Ordueña bt. Menaḥem b. Aharon. The currency used is אותייות and is mentioned in connection with a specific(?) mint on several occasions. The total value of the various marital payments within the ketubba is 18,000 אותייות, which appear prominently at the center of the document as ח׳׳י. Scribed and witnessed by Masʿūd ha-Kohen. The groom also signed underneath as a consenting party to the marriage. Among the conditions mentioned, the groom is not permitted to travel to other cities or to marry a second wife, unless with the consent of Ordueña. In the event that he does so without her permission, the groom commits to grant her a bill of divorce. The ketubba notes in the final lines that it is recorded in accordance with the Sephardi traditions of the "congregations of expellees from Qastīlya" (Castille). ASE. MCD.