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Court record from 22 Sivan (4)802 A.M. (June 1042) regarding the marriage of a minor. On the other side of the page a legal opinion of a Muslim Judge in Arabic letters written on Rabi' al-Awwal 434 A.H. (October-November 1042). The two honorable members of the community who testified before the Muslim judge are the judge, Yosef b. Sulayman, and the cantor, Sahl b. Musa. Apparently, the Muslim judge had a mistake in writing the name of the cantor's father. The cantor should be identified with Yosef b. Yehoshuaʿ (Information from Frenkel).

Recto: part of a ketubba for [...] bat Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Shelomo. Date not preserved. Mentions Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. ʿA[…]. Witnesses are [Ḥal]fon ha-Levi b. Shelomo (who surround his signature with a motto), [...] b. Shelomo, Mevass[er], Abraham b. Meʾir ha-[...]. Verso: list of Arabic names and amounts (of money?). (Information from CUDL)

Ketubba for the remarriage of a couple, Ramla, 1052. This ketubba is cancelled, implying that the couple later divorced for a second time. Verso: Calculations and notations. (Information from CUDL)

Marriage contract of Hayyim b. Moshe and Aziza b. Shelomo. Dated July 28, 1492. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 450)

Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079.

Marriage contract (ketubba) stating that the 200 zuz were "established by the holy college" and the dinars bear the sign "of the temporal ruler." Date, location and witnesses are not preserved, but the marriage probably took place outside of Egypt, as a gift of an ‘Egyptian sheet’ is mentioned. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 301-9) EMS

Betrothal register (53a according to Friedman) between Biqa (?) b. Moshe known as Abu Kāmīl and Mimuna bt. Ḥasan. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). Dated: 4693 AM (= 932/33 CE). This fragment contains four independent documents, nos. 53a-d. Documents 53a, 53b, and 53c are betrothal registers. Document 53d is a marriage contract, written at the time of the "nissuʾin." (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 401–35) EMS

Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). Dated: 4693 AM (= 932/33 CE). This fragment contains four independent documents, nos. 53a-d. Documents 53a, 53b, and 53c are betrothal registers. Document 53d is a marriage contract, written at the time of the "nissuʾin." (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 401–35) EMS

Betrothal register (53c according to Friedman) between Hillel b. Aharon haLevi and Tāma bt. Yiṣḥaq. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). Dated: 4693 AM (= 932/33 CE). This fragment contains four independent documents, nos. 53a-d. Documents 53a, 53b, and 53c are betrothal registers. Document 53d is a marriage contract, written at the time of the "nissuʾin." (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 401–35) EMS

Marriage contract (53d according to Friedman) between ʿEli b. Wahīb and Hiba bt. Yonah. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). Dated: 4693 AM (= 932/33 CE). This fragment contains four independent documents, nos. 53a-d. Documents 53a, 53b, and 53c are betrothal registers. Document 53d is a marriage contract, written at the time of the "nissuʾin." (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 401–35) EMS

Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 12[..] Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed by Shelomo b. [...], Ṣadoq b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥabīb b. ʿAday, Moshe b. Shelomo, ʿEli b. Ḥasan b. Ba[bad?]. On verso there is an unidentified and difficult to read text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a marriage contract from Fustat, written in the same hand as T-S 13J12.18. Dated ca 1337. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 386, 387)

Marriage contract, small fragment, signed by Shemuel b. Ishaq and Avraham ha-Levi b. Yiṣḥaq (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 117, and from Goitein's index cards)

Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style, for the bride Dallāl bet Yefet and (the groom's name is lost), written in Tinnīs, Egypt, probably 1085 or 985.

Legal agreement between spouses on the issue of second wife, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel Ha-Ḥaver, Fustat. The groom, Saʿadya b. Siman Tov, known as Abu l-Ḥasan, states that if his wife permits him to marry another woman, if she should then desire a divorce, he will divorce her, and she will have access to her delayed settlement throughout the marriage. The document also states ‘Her mother is present and hears all this’. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a Karaite marriage contract of the groom Mevorakh b. Yahya and the bride Mubaraka, containing the trousseau. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Marriage contract, fragmentary and damaged, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, in the later period of his activity as scribe (dated documents: 1100-1138), in which an Indian female slave worth 20 dinars formed part of a dowry. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 325, 326, 456)

Marriage contract (ketubba). One of the very few Byzantine ketubbot to have survived. Location: Mastaura, on the Meander River (in Asia Minor). Dated: Friday, 4 Nisan 4782 AM, which is 9 March 1022 CE. Groom: Namer b. Elqana. Bride: Evdokia bt. Kalev. The dowry is listed, including many Greek terms. There is a design with curlicues at the bottom of recto, and the text of the ketubba continues onto verso. Witnesses: Yehuda b. Navon, Moshe b. Leon, Shelaḥya b. Yosef, Moshe b. Shabbetay. (Information from de Lange's edition.)

Marriage contract (ketubba) in the Palestinian style, probably from Tyre, ca. 1089-1099.

Replacement for a lost ketubba (אירכסא). Location: Baalbek, according to both Goitein and Ashtor, although the remaining portion of the document only specifies the Biqāʿ Valley of Lebanon (בקעת הלבנון תחת הר חרמון). The name of the locale appears to end with לת—could it be Zaḥla instead? Dated: 21 Av 1564 Seleucid, which is 1253 CE, under the authority of the Nasi [...] b. Yeḥizqiyahu b. Yishai. Husband: Ismāʿīl b. Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi. Wife: Majdiyya bt. Mufaḍḍal. NB: An earlier version of the PGP record for this document linked it (erroneously?) to T-S Misc.27.4.23 and was credited "D.B. 3-20-89."