"Mantuah" Ketubah

The text adorning this ketubah decoration is part of a poem written for a wedding in the ghetto of Mantua in the early 17th century. It is the work of an anonymous poet and, for that wedding, was set to music for an 8 voice choir by Salamone Rossi, the most important Jewish composer of that period.

The poem begins:Lemi echpots laasot yakar... and the translation begins: Whom should I honor? Surely these souls who enter into a union as man and wife...

This ketubah is limited edition, museum quality print reproduction of an original multilayered papercut ketubah. Please be aware that it  is NOT a papercut.

Print Size: 19” x 13”
Fill-in: $75