[Marriage contract of Ḳarimah daughter of R. Natsr (Elʻazar)] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ḥalfon ben Mevorakh, witness.

Yehudah ben Mosheh, ha-Ḥazan, witness.

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

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Yosef ben Shelomoh, ha-Kohen, active 11th century--Marriage.

Yosef ben Shelomoh.

Ḳarimah bat Elʹazar--Marriage.

Ḳarimah bat Elʹazar.

Ketubah.

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).

Laudatory poetry, Hebrew.

Hebrew language--Writing--Early works to 1800.

Hebrew language.

Hebrew language--Composition and exercises--Early works to 1800.

Jewish law.

Hebrew language--Composition and exercises.

Hebrew language--Writing.

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 : 2 fragments; damaged, torn, faded; folded lengthwise into two unequal halves

30.5 X 12.7 cm (Halper 341); 12.7 X 17.8 (Halper 348) material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 (recto), 2 (verso) lines: 8 (recto Halper 341), 8 (recto Halper 348).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Ḳetubah

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [late 11th cent.?]

Language Note:

Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

When combined, the 2 fragments form about three quarters of the document. The date is in the missing, upper right quarter. The description of Karimah's dowry includes a young black (כושיא) slave girl, inherited from her mother.

The bridegroom is Joseph ben Solomon. Issued in the court of Joseph ben & the Judge (השופט), the witnesses sign Ḥalfon ben Mevorakh, Judah ben Moses he-Ḥazan and Joseph ben [...].

Verso bears secondary inscriptions on each half, written in the opposite direction of the recto.

Left half of verso is a panegyric poem in Hebrew, in Wafir meter, monorhymed ים-. Probably in honor of a donor, as is inferred by the line לך השר וראש כל הנדיבים.

Right half of verso is another poem of the same type, in praise of the Rosh Yeshivah: הלא הוא בחיר ראשי ישיבות. Long and irregular verses, monorhymed בא-. There are many corrections, indicating that this is a draft copy. In both poems verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ.

There are a number of writing exercises in the margins. One of them is possibly a date אלף תרנ״ז (i.e., 1346).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 341

Halper, no. 348

IMHM, no. F38400

Contains:

Panegyric poems (draft copies).

OCLC:

249590917