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Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef Hakohen b. Barukh. The bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Avraham Halevi.

Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Sa'adya. The groom is Esther d. Eliyahu the cantor.

Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Eliyahu Halevi b. Avraham. The deflowered bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Eliyahu.

Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov Halevi b. Shmuel and the deflowred bride is Esther known as 'Aziza.

Decorated, torn Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Yosef and the bride is Esther known as Karima d. Shlomo

Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Nissim and the deflowered bride is Esther known as Rachel.

The image doesn't fit with the description. Karaite ketuba from Cairo.

The image doesn't fit with the description. Karaite ketuba from Cairo.

Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Shlomo b. Eliyahu and the bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Ya'aqov Halevi.

Marriage contract. Location: Calcutta, India ('on the river Ganga' (=Hooghly)). Dated: Sunday, 12 Adar II 5611 AM, which is 1851 CE. Groom: Yeḥezqel b. ʿEzra Gabbay. Bride: Miryam bt. Moshe b. Yeḥezqel. Currency used: 'Company rupees' (רפייה כומפני), perhaps referring to the official coinage of the East India Company.

Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov b. Moshe. The name of the bride is not preserved.

Karaite ketuba from Damascus. The groom is Tosef Halevi b. Yehuda. The deflowered bride is Esther known as Zubaida d. 'Ovadyahu b. David.

Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Not digitized?

Fragment of a Palestinian-style ketubba. Location: Possibly Tyre. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Groom: ʿEli b. Sahlān (possibly identical with ʿEli b. Sahlawayh). Bride: Dhakhīra bt. Avraham. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further information.

Legal document. Khafa bt. Abu al-Faraj Yeshua, the wife of Menashshe the judge, releases Abu Ishaq b. Abu al-Fakhr and his heirs from an obligation of six dinars which she collected. Dated Elul 1485/1174.

Legal document. Dating: Late. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Many names appear. One of the witnesses is named M[oshe] b. Maymūn. The document mentions "al-ishāʿa fī l-funduq."

Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Groom: Faraj. Bride: [...] bt. Farjūn, virgin. Witnesses: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Shemuel, Ṣadaqa b. [...], Hiba b. Aharon, Hillel ha-Levi b. [...], Shelomo b. Moshe, among others.

Letter from the trader Salmān, in Spain, to Abū Saʿīd (likely Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi). Dating: Perhaps Fall 1138 CE. Sent from Spain. Some of the names mentioned are known from the circle of Yehuda ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.) NB: this fragment was previously known as Antonin 1105 (similar to all the other Yevr. III B shelfmarks).

Epistle of the gaon Shemuel b. ʿEli of Baghdad. There is a colophon. This copy was completed Tishrei [1]473 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. "In it [this copy] there is a shahāda of R. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef." There is an addendum dated Tammuz 1486(?) Seleucid (which would be 1175 CE if this is the correct reading), added in Aleppo. Joins with T-S 8J2 and ENA 4011.74.

Letter fragment addressed to 'sayyidnā.' In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about a certain person who drinks and defrauds the poor(?). He wouldn't have said anything if he thought the man would repent on his own. He presents as the proof of his judgment something (some sort of fight?) that he witnessed on Purim between this man and R. Yehuda al-Zaqen al-Bilbaysī al-Kohen and Abū Naṣr the mohel. If the addressee wishes to verify this story, he can make his own inquiries.