Ketubbot Italiane / Italian Ketubot [LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES] [SIGNED BY MALACHI BEIT-ARIE].  
  Antichi Contratti Nuziali Ebraici Miniati / Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts.  

 
Author Grassi, Liliana [Intr.] / Colorni, V.; Fishof, I.; Fumagalli, P. F.; Laras, G.; Mortara Ottolenghi, L. [Texts]
Place of Publication Milano
Publication Name Associazone Italiana Amici dell`Università di Gerusalemme
Year 1984
Language(s) Italian
Description
RARE LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES. SIGNED BY MALACHI BEIT-ARIE with DEDICATION dated 1.10.87. Malachi Beit-Arie (b.1937) is Ludwig Jesselson Professor Emeritus of Codicology and Paleography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This is COPY No.370 of a comprehensive illustrated monograph on Jewish Italian marriage contracts from the 17th to 19th centuries (with one example of a modernist style 20th-century kettubah) exhibited at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan in 1981. Contains 60 color full-page illustrations of the kettubot and 13 color and b&w illustrations accompanying the proceedings of the international conference held at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan on November 8, 1981. The introduction and the proceedings are in Italian and English. [CONTENTS]: Premessa/Foreword - Romolo Deotto. Presentazione/Preface - Liliana Grassi. Testo di una ketubbá/The text of a Kettubah. Jewish Marriage/Il Matrimonio Ebraico - Rav Giuseppe Laras. Historical and legal aspects of the kettubah/Aspetti storici e giuridici della ketubba - Vittore Colorni. The iconographical origins of the Venetian Kettubah/Le origini iconografiche della kettubá veneziana - Iris Fishof. Ornamental writing on the Italian Ketubbah/Scritte ornamentali nella ketubbá italiana - Don Pier Francesco Fumagalli. Ketubbah decoration: symbolism and reality/La Ketubbá: una decorazione tra simbolo e realitá - Luisa Mortara Ottolenghi. 330x235mm. 268 pages. Illustrated Softcover with transparent plastic dust-jacket laid in plain slipcase. Slipcase wrinkled and slightly yellowing. Slipcase corners/edges bumped. Front cover bottom edge slightly bumped. Spine bottom edge yellowing and slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare vast-scale illustrated presentation of Italian Jewish marriage contracts is in good condition.
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