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Marriage contract from the year 1301 A.D., under the authority of Avraham Nagid. Bridegroom: Jephthah b. Avraham.

A small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Replacement ketubba from Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen, for Sālim ibn Hārūn al-ʿUzērī, known as Zuhra, and Ḡinā bat Sālim b. Shakir al-Tām, dated 6 Tammuz 2210 of the Seleucid era (= 14 June 1899 CE). Written and signed by Levi ibn Yaḥyā al-Najjār. The deed, a replacement for a ketubba that was lost, was written in the Jewish quarter, Qāʿ Bīr al-ʿAzab. Verso contains an additional legal note concerning the arrangements for the repayment of a debt owed by the husband to his wife. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a ketubba from Fustat probably from the year [13]93 = 1081/82 CE.

This copy of a marriage contract from a record book from the Palestinian synagogue of Fustat is written on four pages of two folios consisting of page 1: Mosseri A 37 (=Moss. VII,37.2) and page 2: Mosseri A 76 (=Moss. VII,76.1). The marriage between Yefet b. Yaʿaqov and Ḥanna bt. Avraham mentions a dowry of 690 dinars which seems to be an exaggerated amount. The first page is in the hand of Yefet b. David, the second page by another scribe. Dated: September 7, 1043 CE (on New Year's eve). (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 94, 446)

Small fragment of a ketubba, referring to ‘[.]5 gold dinars’. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Small piece of a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Qaraite ketubba. Dated: [13]52 of the Seleucid era, which is 1040/41 CE). Mentions the names Ṣemaḥ, Ḥizqiyya, Mevorakh b. Barhūn, and Ṣedaqa b. ʿAllūn. (Information from CUDL)

Marriage contract, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Bride: [...] bt. Avraham. In Aramaic.

Small fragment from a ketubah? - needs examination. No image

Marriage contract (ketubba). Large and almost completely preserved. Location: Tyre. Dated: Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 AM, which is 28 November 1023 CE. The scribe is probably Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (active in Tyre, 1011–37). Groom: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen of Safed. Bride: Raḥel bt. [...] b. Avraham, a virgin. (Information from Friedman's edition.)

Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026/1027/1028. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the "Jewess." (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 88-95) EMS

Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1310–55 CE, based on the reshut clause naming the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (b. Avraham II Maimonides). See Goitein's note card for further details.

Marriage contract (ketubba) from Damsis, Egypt, 1083.

Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Only the recto was photographed. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Ga'on. Location: Probably Damascus or nearby. Groom: Sasson b. Yefet ha-Zaqen. Bride: Kulla, a virgin and a "divorcee from a betrothal." The bride appoints her brother Ghālib b. Berakhot ha-Zaqen as her representative (lit. "guardian"). Likely the same scribe as Moss. VII,67.2, which is a document from Damascus written prior to 1138 CE. First identified by Ronny Vollandt. Information from Amir Ashur, “A Ketubah in the Palestinian Style with the Permission of Maẓliaḥ Gaon, from the Damascus Geniza” [in Hebrew], Peʿamim 135 (2013), 163–170.

Fragment of a marriage contract.

Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment that begins with the clause setting forth the wife’s obligations (to serve, etc.) and concludes with a dowry list. A minimum marriage gift of twenty-five gold dinars is stipulated, and the document contains a Hebrew clause stating that the husband will not be obligated to pay the marriage gift unless he divorces his wife willfully and she is not guilty of misconduct. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 347-49) EMS

Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment describing that one-third of a house is given to a daughter upon marriage, on the condition that it would become her property only after her mother’s death; the boundaries of the house are precisely delimited. The document begins with the clause detailing the sums of the marriage payment, and the trousseau list contains three types of skullcaps, a bed cover and four cushions, a pair of earrings and a gold pin, two garments with borders of another color, and a shawl, amongst other items. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 332-8) EMS

Marriage contract mentioning in the dowry list, among other garments, a 'jukaniyya,' a garment covering body and head, made of 'white dabiqi'' and worth two dinars. Dated between 1184-1186. (Information from Ashtor, Prix et salaires, pp. 153, 155, 160)