Geniza Lab

Marriage contract from Tinnis, Egypt, in the late tenth century; two pieces. A long elaborate poem recited on Passover was written on both sides of one piece, and on the verso of the marriage contract. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 339) EMS

Part of a ketubba for Nathan ha-Levi (groom), referring to the dowry. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: lower part of a ketubba. Verso: writing exercises of biblical verses in various hands. (Information from CUDL)

Small scrap of parchment containing the closing line of a marriage contract and its signatures. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 374) EMS

The end of a ketubba, witnessed by [...]ya b. Aaron, Peraḥya ha-Me[lammed] and Isaac b. [...]. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for Yeshuʿa (groom). (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yaman. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba, referring to various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Probably a Karaite ketubba (since the legible text is in Hebrew). Sums are given in darkemon (עשרים דרכמון וחצי). (Information from CUDL)

End of a ketubba with very little text preserved, signed by the scribe, Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Part of the beginning of a ketubba, dated 13[..] (10th-11th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)

Probably part of a ketubba fragment, mentioning sums of money in dinars. (Information from CUDL)

End of a ketubba in a large hand. Signed by Nathan [ha-Levi] b. Yeshuʿa (mid-11th century). (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning ‘golden dinars’. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Opening of a ketubba for Malika bat Mukhtār and Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa dated Wednesday 3 [month] [1]365 (= 1054 CE) in Fusṭāṭ. Malika was formerly married to a man named Isaac and the ketubba mentions her son Mafrij b. Isaac (מפרג), whom Ṣedaqa will now treat as his own child. Witnessed by Aharon the Adept b. Efrayim, Hassan b. ʿAvham (עבהם), Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Sahl b. Mevasser, Sh[...]on b. Yiṣḥaq, Ghālib b. Aharon (גאלב), [...] b. Shemuʾel. (Information from CUDL)

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.)

Part of a ketubba for Judah ha-Levi (groom), witnessed by Saʿadya b. Shemarya and Hillel b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba mentioning the sum of 100 dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba from Egypt with no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)