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[Marriage contract] : manuscript.

Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 366
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Yefet ben Daṿid, -1057, scribe.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Language:
Hebrew
Subjects (All):
Ketubah.
Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).
Marriage (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, cropped; verso is blank
Parchment 33.5 X 8.2 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 5 partially extant (recto).
Contained In:
Cairo Genizah Collection
Other Title:
Ketubah
Place of Publication:
[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [1026-1056?]
Language Note:
Hebrew. Hebrew
Notes:
A fragment from the middle of a ketubah. Most of the details are missing from the fragment, except for the name of the bridegroom, Ghaleb.
Listed b E. Bareket: Shafrir Mitsraim / Elinoar Bareket. Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University, 1995, p. 265, as one of over 100 Genizah documents written by Japheth ben David, who served between 1014-1056 as the Ḥazzan and scribe of the Erets Israel community of Fustat, which housed the Genizah. See Bareqet, ibid. pp. 122-132. Dated documents from his hand range from 1026-1056.
Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
Cited in:
Halper, no. 366
IMHM, no. F38400
OCLC:
249590917

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