[Marriage contract of Shimʹah daughter of Daud, a virgin] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saʹid ibn Sulmian Nag'ar, witness.

Yeḥiyah ibn Saʹid, witness.

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

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Ḥayim ibn Suliman--Marriage.

Marriage (Jewish law).

Ketubah.

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law).

Jewish law.

Jewish religious poetry.

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 : complete; verso is blank

Paper 28.2 X 23.5 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 30 (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Ketubah

Place of Publication:

[Almuḥbasha, Yemen], [publisher not identified], [Fri. Mar. 4, 1892]

Language Note:

Aramaic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Recto has 9 staggered lines of liturgical blessings, covering the upper third of the folio, 20 lines of content, and 1 line of signatures; incipits and the names of the parties in enlarged square characters, above a space.

The bridegroom is Ḥaim ibn Suleiman. The witnesses are Saʹid ben Sulaiman Najjār and Yaḥyah ben Saʹid Kabāssi. The location is Almuḥbasha in northwest Yemen, described here: דמתקרי שמה קֻזַייִז דעל בריכתא דמים אלקטפ ( "also called Ḳuzayez [Babylonian vocalization] on lake al-Ḳaṭf" [sic! with פ not ף).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 374

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366218088