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Tag: ketubba
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Recto: Ketubba fragment. Dating: Prior to 1144 CE. Groom: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Yefet ha-Zaqen. Witnesses: Ẓemaḥ ha-Kohen b. Shemuel ha-Kohen; Elqana b. Shelomo. Verso: Legal document. The settlement of a protracted marital dispute between the same Tamīm b. Yefet and his wife Sitt al-Khawāt. Needs further examination for the details of the resolution. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Adar 1455 Seleucid, which is 1144 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Witnesses: Berakhot ha-Kohen b. Aharon ha-Galīlī, Munajjā ha-Parnas b. Shelomo, and Natan b. Shemarya ha-Kohen.
Marriage contract for the same couple as in Antonin 637r. Begins with a clause concerning the appointment of the bride's agent, concludes with the last line of the formulary of the contract, including the blessings. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 288, 295) EMS
One of two separate texts of a ketubba (marriage contract) written for the same Karaite - Rabbanite 'mixed marriage' and preserved on a single fragment, one text on either side, ca. 1011-1037.
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Bride: Nisāba bt. Hiba, virgin. There are numerous witnesses: Ya'ir b. Elazar, [...] ha-Levi b. Avraham, Yosef b. Saadya, Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver b. ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver, Yequtiel b. Moshe, ʿUlla ha-Kohen b. Hillel, among others.
Ketubba fragment.
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.
Ketubba fragment. Dating: 1141–59 CE, based on the reshut clause naming Shemuel ha-Nagid. Groom: Natan. Bride: Sitt al-Turaf bt. Yeshuʿa, virgin. witnesses: Yosef b. Yehuda, Shemarya b. A[...], Ḥiyya.
Ketubba fragment. Dating: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Possibly this could be narrowed based on the reshut clause naming ha-Nagid ha-Gadol (Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). The groom is named Seʿadya. There are some jottings in Hebrew script on verso.
Ketubba. Date: Sivan 1420 Seleucid, which is 1109 CE. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Tamīm ha-Zaqen. Bride: Sitt al-[...]. The non-formulaic portion is in Judaeo-Arabic. Witnesses include: Menashshe ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, Yosef b. Saadya, Shemarya b. Aharon, Elazar ha-Levi b. Avraham, ʿAmram b. Ya'ir(?) the judge, Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver, Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi.
Ketubba fragment. The location, date, and names do not appear to be preserved on this portion. The bride is a virgin. The non-formulaic portion is in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya: start with T-S 12.141 and look at Joins Suggestions for more in his hand.
Page from a book of legal formulas of a marriage contract by a proxy probably from Siddur R. Nathan if Sijilmasa. Written by Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Sa'adya (mid 13th century). AA
