Ketubah on Parchment – Siena (Italy), 1693

Ketubah on the marriage of Levi ben Yosef Orvieto with the bride Simcha bat Mordechai. Orvieto. Siena, (Italy), December 2, 1693.
Ink on parchment.
Title in calligraphic lettering "He who finds a wife finds good". Frame with floral decorations. On the top and bottom of the frame are drawings of small frames (cartouches), sometimes used for impressing family emblems.
Witnesses signatures: "Eliezer ben R' Shabtai Vitirbo" and "Ya'akov ben Avraham Mon—lato—".
41X46 cm. frome 64X68 cm. Fair condition, stains and folds. Missing tear on upper left side, with damage to frame drawing and to text, professionally restored. Not examined out of frame.
See: Ketubbah: Jewish marriage contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library, Shalom Sabar (New York, 1990), pp. 162-163.
Provenance: Sotheby's – important Judaica, New York, November 30, 2006. Item no. 201.