ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S NS 313.4

ثيقة شرعيّة T-S NS 313.4

بيانات التعريف

علامة الرف
T-S NS 313.4
تاريخ الوثيقة

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الوصف

Formulary or draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) with a mixture of Palestinian and Babylonian characteristics. Location: Minyat Zifta, Egypt. Dated: 4854 AM = 1093/94 CE. The groom is the cantor Saʿadya b. Sedaqa the cantor, a man known to have served also as judge and scribe in Minyat Zifta. He may have been the scribe, using his own name and his wife's name merely for the sake of example in drawing up this form. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 107-9) EMS

Related People

Marrying/Divorcing Party
Saʿadya b. Ṣedaqa ha-Ḥazzan

Related Places

Location
Minyat Ziftā

العلامات

Additional metadata

Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
تاريخ الإدخال
In PGP since 1989
صورة
النصوص المفرّغة
الترجمة

T-S NS 313.4 1r

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1r
Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study (Tel Aviv University, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1980), vol. 2 (The Ketubba Texts).

TS NS Boxn 313, f. 4, ed. Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, pp. 109-111 (Doc. #9), N.T. 02-24-89 (p) Minyat Zifta, Egypt, 1093/4 }

  1. [ בשמך ר]חמנא נסכה כתובה
  2. [ ] בשבה בכן וכן בירח
  3. [ ] ארבעת אלפין ותמני
  4. [מאה וארבע ו]חמשין שנין לבריתיה
  5. [דעל]מא [ב]עיר פל הסמוכה למקום
  6. פל דעל נהר אנא סעדיה [החז]ן
  7. בר צדקה הח[ז]ן תנצבה אמרת
  8. מדעתי ור[עות]י יצביוני למסב
  9. יתיכי אנתי [ע]זוז כלתא בת מרי
  10. יצחק נע דתהוי לי לאנתו ואנא
  11. אפלח ואזון וא[י]יקר ואסובר יתיכי
  12. כהלכת גברין יהודאי\\י\\ן דפלחין וזנין
  13. ומפרנסין ומייקרין ית נשיהון
  14. בקושטא ואת עזוז בת יצחק נע
  15. קמה בין ותפלחין קדמיי ותשתדלי
  16. למעבד בהדאי כל דעבדין
  17. נשין כשירין בה[די] גבריהון בדכי[ו]
Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study (Tel Aviv University, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1980), vol. 2 (The Ketubba Texts).

recto

  1. [By Your Name, O Me]rciful One. The text of a marriage contract.
  2. [On such day] of the week, such and such of month
  3. [X,] four thousand, eight
  4. [hundred and] fifty[-four] years A.
  5. M., [in] town X, which is adjacent to place
  6. X, on river (X), "I, Saadia the [ḥazza]n
  7. b. R. Ṣedaqa the [ḥazza]n, m(ay his) s(oul be) b(ound) i(n the bundle of) l(ife), declare
  8. intentionally, wi[lling]ly, and of my choice to marry
  9. you, thee, ʿAzūz, the bride, daughter of master
  10. Isaac (who) r(ests in) E(den), so that you shall be my wife. I
  11. will serve, nourish, [h]onor, and support you
  12. in the manner of Jewish men who serve, nourish,
  13. provide for, and honor their wives
  14. faithfully. And you ʿAzūz daughter of Isaac (who) r(ests in) E(den)
  15. shall stand before (me) and serve me. And you shall strive
  16. to do with me all that do
  17. proper women wi[th] their husbands, in purity

T-S NS 313.4 1v

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1v

verso

  1. ובנקייו ואתין ליך בכ[תובתיך]
  2. תריסר זוזי ופלגא כ[דחזון ליך]
  3. מדאוריתא ואתין [ליך תוספת]
  4. [[חמשה ועשרין דינ[רין]]] {[ת]לתין דינרין}[וכבר]
  5. קדמתי ליך מנהון עש[רה דינרין]
  6. ויש[ת]ייר ליך עליי עשרין ד[ינרין]
  7. מאוחרין חוב ודן נדוניא דהנעי[לת]
  8. על[יי] ויכתוב גמי[ע] א[ל]רחל כל
  9. עלק בתמנה פא[דא] לם יבק
  10. שיא יפדלך אלג[מי]ע והאוי
  11. כלל כתובתא דא מוהרא
  12. ותוספתא ונדוניא כן וכן דדהבא
  13. ותריסר זוזי ופלגא וקבלת
  14. אני סעדיה החזן בירבי צדקה
  15. החזן תנצבה אחר[יו]ת כתובתא
  16. דא [[.]] עלי ועל [י]רתיי בתריי
  17. דמגבא ליך [מ]כל שפר ארג

verso

  1. and cleanness. I will give to you as [your] ke[tubba money]
  2. twelve and a half zuz, as is [due you]
  3. according to the Torah. And I will give [to you an addition]
  4. of ⟦twenty-five dina[rs]⟧ {[t]hirty dinars},
  5. of which I have [already] advanced to you te[n dinars,]
  6. and there rem[a]in for you, incumbent upon me, twenty d[inars],
  7. delayed, as a debt. And this is the dowry which [you] brou[ght]
  8. to [me]." (Then) he writes the enti[re] trousseau, every
  9. item with its value. Whe[n] there remains no-
  10. thing, he totals it a[l]]: And the
  11. total of this marriage contract, the mohar
  12. the additional gift, and the dowry, is so many of gold
  13. and twelve and a half zuz. "And I,
  14. Saadiah the ḥazzan b. Ṣedaqa
  15. the ḥazzan, m(ay his) s(oul be) b(ound) i(n the bundle of) l(ife), undertake the secur[it]y of this marriage
  16. contract, upon me and upon my [h]eirs after me,
  17. to be collectable by you [from] all the best (and) choice [of my possessions..."]
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