Bidspirit auction | Ketubah on parchment - Florence,

Ketubah on parchment - Florence, 1885 Ketubah for the marriage of the groom Yitzhak ben Rafael Rosselli, with the bride Igli daughter of the esteemed Alfredo Modina. Florence (Florence), Adar 1885. Ketubah on parchment. The text of the ketubah indicates the name of the notary who drew up the deed, ”Notre Carlo Quierezzi”. Signatures of the witnesses Rabbi ”Shmuel Zvi Margaliot Av Beit Din”, Mordechai Shmuel Masili' and an additional signature in Italian. Rabbi Shmuel Zvi Margaliot (Otzar HaRabbanim 19628, 1889-1892) - born in Galicia, studied in Buchach under Rabbi Shmuel Yissachar Stark, received a rabbi's degree from the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau and a doctorate in philosophy and Semitic languages ​​from the universities of Leipzig and Breslau in Germany. From 1887 to 1890 he served as rabbi of the ”Hesse Nassau” community in Hamburg, Germany. In 1890 he moved to Florence, where he served as rabbi until his death. In 1899 he transferred to Florence the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano, which was in Rome, after it had been transferred there from Padua, where it had been founded by Shmuel David Luzzato. 55X43 cm. Good condition. A few stains and creases.