[Marriage contract (draft)] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Language:

Aramaic

Subjects (All):

Avraham ben Tsedaḳah--Marriage.

Ketubah.

Marriage--Palestine.

Marriage (Jewish law).

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).

Jewish law.

Marriage.

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 (center area), torn, faded; verso is blank

Parchment 11.4 X 12 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 8 partially extant (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Ḳetubah

Place of Publication:

[Ramla], [publisher not identified], [1062 or 1069]

Language Note:

Aramaic. Hebrew

Notes:

First two lines, biblical citations, denoted by a bar above each letter.

A fragment from the upper part of the center of a Ketubah document, given by Abraham ben Ṣedaka to the daughter of Pinḥas ben Levi the Elder. Abraham is a signed as a witness on a bill of appointment issuedḅy the Erets Israeli Gaonate in 1065 (Cambridge TS 10J 26 fol. 1/ Oxford Bodleian Heb. d.66 fol. 4, in Gil, Erets Israel, 1983 vol. IIIp. 26).

The date (l. 3) is in the month of Shevat, in the sixth year of the sabbatical cycle, which could be either 1062 or 1069. In l. 4 is the allusion to Ramle: באחסנת ב]ני יהודה].

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 364

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published, with introduction and translation, by M. Friedman: Jewish marriage in Palestine / Mordecai Akiva Friedman. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1980-1981, p. 358-36

OCLC:

249590917