Legal document: T-S NS 99.45

Legal document T-S NS 99.45

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Tyrian marriage contract with a peculiar proposal formula borrowed from Malachi 2:14 (‘my companion and wife in covenant’). Mid eleventh century. (Information from CUDL)

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T-S NS 99.45 1r

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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 Box 99, f. 45, ed. Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol.2, pp. 213-214(Doc. #20) N.T. 03-04-89 (p)Companion and wife in covenant

  1. [על שמיה ד]בריין [בנ]ין ומצלחין
  2. [ בש]בת בעשרים וארבע ב[סי]ון בשתה חמישתה דשבועה מה דהיא שנת ארבעת אלפין ותמן
  3. [מאוון... לבריי]תה דעלמה בצור המדינה שעל חוף הים הגדול מושבה אתא קדמינן הדן מ שלמה טליה
  4. [ ]מה ננ ואמר מדעתי ומרעותי ומטבותי ומצביוני נפשי ד[ל]א אנ[יס] ודל[א] כעיס ודלא כפיף ודלא
  5. [ ודלא] רווי חמר אלא בהון מלא ובממלל חלי ל[מכ]נוש ית הדא מבא[רכה כלתה בתו]לה ברת מ נתן סט בן ישועה
  6. [ ] חברתי ואשת בריתי [ו]עלי למוק[רה ול...]ה ול[פ]רנסה ולעמוד ב[סי]פוקה כהלכת גוברין כשירין
  7. [יהודאין ...] . [...] ומיקרין ומפרנסין ...] .. [..........] ית נשיהון בטהרה ובקדושה וכבר דקצבתי לה עלי
  8. [ ]לש[.... מ]מטביע [................ מ]נהון עשרין דינרין עינה שלמין קדמות מהרה
  9. [ ] ... [ ]ה שלמין ח[וב ......... לית לה ר]שו למתבוע מנהון שוה פ[רוטה קל]ילתה כל זמן דהיא
  10. [ דלא צה]יה ודלא כ[פנה ..........]מדע[......] בשרתו מן [.........]שנא וטליתה בגרת
  11. [ ]. .ל[..................]...[ומניי]ת לה ית מ נת[ן בן ישועה] ננ אביה למיקם
  12. ] ]...[......]. .ין ל[ ]
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).
  1. [By the name of] our Creator. [Buil]d and Prosper.
  2. [... of the we]ek(?), twenty-four in [Si]van, in the fifth year of the sabbatical cycle, which is year four thousand, eight  
  3. [hundred ...] A.M. , in the city of Tyre, which is located on the shore of the great sea. There came before us this m(aster) Solomon, the youth  
  4. [b. ...]mh (whose) s(oul is at) r(est), and he said, "Intentionally, willingly, voluntarily, and of my own choice, not coerced, not vexed, not compelled, not  
  5. [... and not] intoxicated, but with (my) full senses and with clear speech, to [m]arry this Mubā[raka(?) the bride,] the [virg]in, daughter of m(aster) Nathan, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), b. Yeshuʿa
  6. [...to be] my companion and my wife in covenant. [And] I must este[em her, ...], provide for her, and fulfill her [n]eeds, in the manner of decent [Jewish] men
  7. [who …] and honor, and pr[ovide for …] their wives in purity and sanctity. I already have fixed for her as an obligation incumbent upon me
  8. [... of] the coins [of the state …o]f which twenty(?) full gold dinars are the advanced mohar.
  9. [...] full, as a d[ebt … She has no ri]ght to claim of them the value of a [sm]all pe[ruṭa], as long as she is
  10. [under my jurisdiction, not thirs]ty, nor h[ungry ..."] ... of [...]  hate(?). And this girl has matured  
  11. [...] She has [appointed] m(aster) Natha[n b. Yeshuʿa] (whose) s(oul is at) r(est), her father, to fulfill  
  12. …

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