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Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …
1 نسخ
Monetary agreement between a newly married couple. Yehuda b. Simha married Sarah d. Elzafan, and her father took upon himself to pay her dowry in …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Ketubba fragment (marriage contract). Location: Damascus. Dated: 1[.]01 Seleucid = [10]89/90 or [11]89/9 CE.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Marriage contract from Tyre, dated Tuesday, 19 Av, fifth year the sabbatical cycle (ca. 1054). Somebody with a nisba from the town of 'Ibillin is …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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2 نسخين
A Karaite engagement deed recorded in the home of Shemuʾel b. Yeshūʿa Melamed (probably the brother of one of the witnesses listed). Dated Wednesday, 15 …
Karaite betrothal deed from the 1 Sivan 5347 AM. The groom Yisrael Hakohen b. Shemuel. The bride Esther d. Shemuel Ibn Yahya. The groom is …
Legal document regarding the transfer of marital payments and trousseau items between David known as Naqāsh, father of the bride ʿAzīza, and the groom Shalom …
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: 28 Nisan 5533 AM (1773 CE). The groom is Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ḥakīm and the bride Qamr b. Yeshūʿa. …
Karaite marriage agreement between Hananya b. Ya'aqov Halevi and Esther known as 'Aziza d. Eliyyahu b. Sa'adya. Date: 2 Nisan 5576 AM (1816 CE). As …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Court copy of a Karaite ketubba (marriage contract), Ramla. Ca. 1030 (per Friedman) or 1010s-1020s (per Olszowy-Schlanger). Bride: Ḥusn bt. David. Groom: Shelomo b. ʿAmram. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Marriage contract written by the Gaʾon Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (served 1062–83). Location: Ramla. Dating: Probably 1064 CE. The property of the bride includes an …
4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. Dated: Nisan 1497 Seleucid, …
1 مناقشة
Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. He opens, "How long will you remain a widow?" …
כתאבי אלי בנת אלאך אלעזיזה ופקהא אללה תע
ולא ווחש מן טלעתהא ולא מן אכותהא ויא
בנת אכי אלי כם תקעדי ארמלה פמא בקא
יחלקני(?) . . נא . …
Trousseau list. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Groom: Arye b. Yehuda. Bride: Karīma bt. ʿAmmār. Marriage payments: 10 + 15. The latter refused to leave …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Qaraite. Groom: Ṣedaqa. Location: Fustat(?). Dating: 1020–30s(?). Witnesses: Avraham b. Khalaf ha-Kohen; Netanʾel b. Revaḥ/Rawḥ ha-Levi; Barakāt b. Mubārak; Hiba b. Yosef; …
Marriage document. Small fragment of a ketubba, probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions Shemuʾel b. Khalaf, 15 …
Karaite betrothal deed. Bride: Yamān bat David b. Isaiah, of Egypt. Groom: Shela b. ʿAmram al-Qirqisānī, of Tyre. Both the bride and groom are represented …
Leaf from a notebook or register of some sort. The two pages are each headed "faṣl," like other documents from the dossier of the Mosul …
Rough draft of a ketubba (marriage contract), with instructions to the scribe for drawing up the final version. Possibly written by the judge Ḥayyim known …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1130–38 CE, based on Ḥalfon's dates and the fact that Abū l-Barakāt …
Fragment of a ketubba (שטר פרנא). Location: Likely Tyre. Dating: ca. 1090s. The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S …
Legal testimony. Location: Sunbāṭ (Sambuṭya). Dated: Adar 1427 Seleucid = February/March 1116 CE. In which Hilāla bt. Natan (aka Hilāla bt. Hiba), a widow with …
Fragment of a ketubba (marriage contract) which stipulates that the bride would move from Tyre to Akko in twelve months, ca. 1028-1037. The bride's father …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Nahray b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Abū l-Barakat b. Abū l-Ḥasan to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is evidently a family member of Shelomo's wife Sitt Ghazāl …
The distinguished master's goodness…
and punishing her every Friday. However, your own words testify against you, and the proof is
that …
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …
למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין
יי' אורי וישעי וג' מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין
His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).
It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -
God is my light and…
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …
Ketubba for the remarriage of a couple, Ramla, 1051. Groom: Marwān b. Toviah. Bride: Sarwa bt. Mevorakh. This ketubba is cancelled, implying that the couple …
Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …
Betrothal register between Biqa (?) b. Moshe known as Abu Kāmīl and Mimuna bt. Ḥasan. The groom gives a quarter of a compound to Mimouna …
ד אלפים ם צג
כ…
Marriage contract, fragmentary and damaged, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, in the later period of his activity as scribe (dated documents: 1100-1138), in …
Legal document concerning a wife agreement to the reduction of her delayed marriage gift from 70 to 20 dinars and renounces the title of trustworthiness …
(1-2) His H(onor), Mr. Sar Shalom, may the Rock [preserve him] b. his H(onor), Mr. Yeshuʿa m(ay he rest in) E(den), asked us, the witness und…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Ketubba with a valuable dowry listing gold jewellery, pearls, rubies, and turquoise, second half of the 15th century. (Corrected by comparison with photocopy of MS …
Legal document: Qaraite ketubba from Ramla, part only. Yaʿaqov b. David al-Shulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). Location: Ramla. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul …
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Damascus, late tenth century. The dowry list includes a short garment of linen decorated with silver and golden threads, two shirts, …
Legal queries regarding inheritance rendered in Hebrew verse. At the bottom a poem in the first-person expressing love for a wife of many years: אני …
Marriage contract. Location: Barqa (Libya). Dated: Thursday 5 Elul 4750 AM, which is 28 August 990 CE. The contract explicitly states that it follows the …
Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
India Book (IB) I, 34a. Legal proceedings whereby two friends of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt …
מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא
לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אסחק מר' | ור' אברה…
Legal record (#62). Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Bū l-Makārim al-Ṣā'igh Yosef b. Shemuel. Bride: Sitt al-Riyāsa bt. Shela ha-Levi ("the sister of Sitt al-Ḥasab" - …
תקוים אלשיך אבו אלכארם
India Book III, 54: Legal record (#64). Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju. Bride: Sitt al-Dār ('Mistress of the House'), the daughter of …