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Tag: ketubba
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Fragment containing the lower section of a ketubba (marriage contract) beginning towards the end of the dowry list, which contains a chest and a case, a drinking cup and a water container. A gift to the bride includes an apartment in a compound known as Daniel the Perfumer. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 327-31) EMS
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower left corner). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Bride: Ḥasana bt. Shelomo. Groom: Avraham b. Simḥa. This portion preserves the formulae describing the husband's obligations toward his wife.
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Qugandima, Egypt, dated 945. The document records a marriage gift of only four dinars and is signed by eleven or twelve individuals, including the groom. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol 2, 165-75) EMS
Fragment of a Karaite ketubba, 11th-century Fustat. Information from FGP.
Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, dated October 1116 (Thursday, 11 Marḥershvan, 142...). The marriage gift consists of 16 dinars. The bride is a divorcee on whose earning the husband will have no right, but who will provide her clothing by herself. Verso is blank. (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below and Goitein, Med Soc, Vol. 3, p. 380.) NB: Goitein identified T-S 8.210 as a join with T-S 12.164 + Bodl. MS heb. b 12/19, but this does not seem definite.
Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, dated October 1116 (Thursday, 11 Marḥershvan, 142...). The marriage gift consists of 16 dinars. The bride is a divorcee on whose earning the husband will have no right, but who will provide her clothing by herself. Verso is blank. (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below and Goitein, MedSoc, Vol. 3, p. 380.)
Verso: Marriage contract dated 1050, between Saadya b. Maymun and Ḥasana bat Levi, mentioning 5 dinars that will be given at the time of the wedding and 20 dinars deferred. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 398) Recto: various texts, including a formula for a bill of divorce, and a Hebrew poem.
A fragment from the top of a ketubah from the year 1038. The bride is the daughter of Efrayim. Part of the dowry list is preserved. AA
Ketubba, nearly complete, from Cairo, dated 24 November 1822, between Hayyim and Esther (their fathers' names are written but tricky to read), with a me'ukhar of 800 reyals (16000 piastres = 160 pounds). ASE.
Fragmentary, short marriage contract from Cairo, from which most of the details are missing and which does not mention dowry. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 121, and from Goitein's index cards)
Marriage contract involving a bride with children from a previous marriage whom the new husband undertakes to support, and mentioning 118 dinars in a dowry and marriage gift. Signed by the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Ghalib (ca. 1125). (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 309, and from Goitein's index cards)
Ketubba (damaged), late, from Cairo ([...] ha-semukhah le-fustat mitzrayim), from at least the 18th century [55__], probably the 19th. ASE.
Ketubba, faded, from Cairo, dated 25 March 1811, between Nissim and Esther, with a me'ukhar of 150 reyals (3000 piastres = 30 pounds). ASE.
Ketubba (damaged), late, probably from Cairo, probably early 19th century, if it comes from the same stratum as the other late ketubbot in this binder. But the informative phrases are mostly effaced. ASE.
Fragmentary Karaite marriage contract, the margin of which is adorned with large, hollow letters. (Information Mediterranean Society, III, p. 112)
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition, 1034.
Legal document fragment (lower left corner), mentioning 'her ketubba.' Signed Yosef b. Shemuel. ASE.
Ketubba fragment.
Marriage contract written by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1180) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's name, Yahya ha-Levi. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 120, 382, and from Goitein's index cards)
Ketubba (marriage contract). Fragment written in a calligraphic hand. Dating: probably late 10th or 11th century. Mentions the name חביבה מפרג כהנה. Witnesses: Natan b. Peraḥya; Kalev b. Yosef; Yehuda b. Efrayim; Menaḥem b. Efrayim; Avraham b. Yehuda; Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. [...]; Yosef b. [...]; Shela b. [...]; Zarʿa b. [...].
