04795ctm a2200517 a 4500 9979574756403681 20260219090357.0 250630q18241825gs p 000 0 arc d (OCoLC)1525861258 PAU eng amremm PAU PAU arc heb a-gs--- PAUU CAJS Rar Ms 776 880-01 [Illuminated Ketubah : Axalcʻixe, Georgia, 1824 or 1825]. 245-01/r [כתובה מאויירת : אחלציחה, גאורגה, תקפ"ה]. 880-02 Be-mata Akhiska y.ʻE.a. de-yatva ʻal nehar Ṭekore, [5585, that is, 1824 or 1825] 260-02/r במתא אכיסכא יע"א דיתבא על נהר טקורי, [תקפ"ה] 1 item : paper, color illuminations ; 463 x 410 mm (190 x 100 mm (text body) ; 90 x 160 mm (upper framing and verses) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Aramaic and Hebrew. Ms. leaf. Script: Written in an Persian-Oriental semicursive script (text) and a Sephardic square script (captions, and one frame of celebratory text). Decoration: Red Moorish arches painted around text columns; teal, green, and red half-circles around central frame, continuing pattern below ketubah; rosette-figures, drawn by ink stencil, masked, continuing the same color pattern; and a wider framing of plants, paired, with a final outer frame of traced circles; all paint gouache, and all ink geometric stenciling. Sabar, Shalom. Between East and West: An Important Illustrated Jewish Marriage Contract from the Remote Community of Akhaltsikhe, Georgia, 1824/25 (unpublished report : available in the curator's file). Title supplied by cataloger. Another illuminated Ketubah, from the neighboring village of Atskuri, with a similar program of illumination, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 757 cataloged 2025-06 CLM Sold by JCL Antiques (London), 2025. Illuminated Ketubah : Axalcʻixe, Georgia, 1824 or 1825 (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 776). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Yaʻaḳov ben Yitsḥaḳ, (Axalcʻixe, Georgia) Ester bat Mikhaʼel, (Axalcʻixe, Georgia) Manuscripts, Aramaic Georgia (Republic) Axalcʻixe (Samcʻxe-javaxetʻi) 19th century Specimens. illuminated manuscripts aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265483 ketubahs aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300182873 tuǧras aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300310091 gouaches (paintings) aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300078928 pen and ink drawings aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404676 Manuscripts. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2022026088 Ḳazov, David, signer. 500-00/r Layout: Written in two paragraphs of 11 and 9 lines (Ketubah text), with one band of text in the next layer of framing (סימן אור"ה ס"י ברכ"ה ס"י גילה...), and three upper columns of decorative text, inside individual Moorish arches ("שוש" "בסימנא" "מצא"). 520-00/r Georgian Ketubah, written for the marriage of Yaʻaḳov ben Yitsḥaḳ of Axalcʻixe, referred to as 'the city Akhiskha (the Turkish name for Axalcʻixe), which sits on the Ṭekore (today Mtkavri, or Kura) river', to Ester bat Mikhaʼel; two paragraphs of ketubah text, with one autograph below (the tuǧra signature of David Ḳazov (? דוד קאזוב). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. CAJS Rar Ms. 776 Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda) https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3t728h8h 9979574756403681 22848009000003681 01UPENN_INST KislakCntr Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 776 unavailable 1 1 scmss 8 1 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts 22848009000003681 CAJS Rar Ms 776 KislakCntr scmss