Tag: 9th c

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Beginning of a ketubba, 870 CE. (Or 871 CE?) "The oldest dated Genizah document. A draft of a ketubah, in which the writing is interrupted after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 Tishre 1183 Seleucid, which is (שבת אשר בתשרי [...] אלפא ומאת ותמנ״ן מציון ותלת), Seleucid year (לשתרות)." Information from Penn Catalog.
One bifolium of a parchment quire containing both rabbinic passages (Berakhot 24b, 13b, and others) a and the beginning of a formulary for a partership contract. Dated 17 Iyyar 4635/875 CE. The scribe has used a parchment scrap from near one of the animal's limbs.