[Ḳetubah] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Adam (Biblical figure).

Adam.

Ketubah.

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).

Marriage (Jewish law).

Midrash.

Jewish law.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment; incomplete, cropped beneath final line

Parchment 14 x 8.8 cm black ink ruling method: recto (original document), drypoint, stylus lines visible, large margin on interior side; verso, secondary inscription fills fragment widthwise, lines poorly ruled columns: 1 1 lines: 7 (recto); 17 (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Marriage contract, draft

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [869 or 870]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Aramaic. Hebrew

Notes:

The oldest dated Genizah document. A draft of a ḳetubah, in which the writing is interrupted after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 Tishre 1183 (שבת אשר בתשרי [...] אלפא ומאת ותמנ״ן מציון ותלת), Seleucid year (לשתרות). The parchment has been cut off beneath this final line. On the right margin: ברוך ייי הללויה מציון שכון ירושלום (sic!).

Verso contains a secondary inscription, added much later, which fits the cut of the discarded parchment. It contains a Midrashic passage in Aramaic about the humility of Adam among the creatures. The term בקא (single flea) appears, which is mentioned but once in Rabbinic literature (Talmud Ḥulin 58b).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 331

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published by S. Goitein, Leshonenu, v. 30 (1966), p. 199-200. Noting its historic and paleographic significance, see M. Beit-Arie, Teʹudah, v. 1 (1980), p. 199; Peʹamim, v. 41, p. 35.

Contains:

Midrash in Aramaic on the humility of Adam.

OCLC:

1371176571