[Marriage contract of Zein, daughter of R. Aaron ha-mumḥeh (the expert)] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abraham ben Nathan, active 11th century-12th century.

Mosheh ben Daṿid, ha-Leṿi, witness.

ʹAlṿan ben Natan, witness.

Avraham ben Yosef, witness.

Yefet ben Shelomoh ben Ḥai, witness.

Tsemaḥ ben Yaʻaḳov, ha-Leṿi, witness.

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

Language:

Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Mantsur Kahana ben Mosheh, 11th century--Marriage.

Mantsur Kahana ben Mosheh.

Zain bat ʹAlom--Marriage.

Zain bat ʹAlom.

Abraham ben Nathan, active 11th century-12th century.

Abraham ben Nathan.

Ketubah.

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).

Marriage (Jewish law).

Jewish law.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Sulzberger.

Physical Description:

1 folio : orn. dev.; lacking right edge; losses along left edge; occasional Arabic words on verso in blank area

Parchment 37.7 X 29.2 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 21 (1 benedictional heading; 20 text)(recto), 6 (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Ḳetubah

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [1080-1114?]

Language Note:

Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

A large folio, missing from both edges. 20 lines, under a heading of standard blessings in larger letters with decorations.

The bridegroom is Mantsur Kahane ben Moses. The day, Friday, month, Marḥeshvan, and Seleucid year, 13 -, are recorded in the first line, the last two digits, and the place of issue are in the missing upper-left corner.

Mantsur gives 75 dinar and 12 zuz, including a quarter of his house (30 dinar) and her outfit (another 30). The witnesses autograph signatures: [ʻA]l[wa]n ben Nathan, Abraham ben Joseph and Japheth ben Solomon ben Ḥai.

In the center of the verso is an inscription in Judeo-Arabic, documenting the partial enactment of the ḳetubah (see Mishnah Ḳetubot VIII 9), in which Zein has collected 30 dinar from the transferal of a quarter of the estate, in Fustat.

This is written on six lines in a more cursive hand. Issued in the court of Abraham ben Nathan, Av ha-yeshiva (see the list of judges, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II Appendix D, no. 14), and Moses ha-Levi ben David.

The autograph signature of the first witness is Tsemaḥ ha-Levi ben Jacob, the second is partially illegible and partially missing.

Abraham ben Nathan served in Fustat in the early 12th century (Mann, The Jews of Egypt, 1920. vol. 1 p. 194, vol. II pp. 231-232) and signed documents dated between 1098-1114. He signs together with the same Moses on a document in Oxford Bodleian Heb. d. 68 fol. 106 (Cowley 2836.28). A document issued by the same Moses, and witnessed by the same Tsemaḥ, is Cambridge TS 8J 4.22, dated October 1108.

The value of this ḳetubah is listed in the index of ḳetubot in S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. III p. 400 no. 100.

The right edge of the document, missing here (except for the last two lines), is Cambridge TS 16.155.

Forms part of: Cairo Genzah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 333

IMHM, no. F38400

Goitein, no. 100

OCLC:

249590917