Legal document: T-S 16.211

Legal document T-S 16.211

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T-S 16.211
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Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style. Bride: Dalāl bt. Yefet. The groom's name is lost. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: probably 1085 or 985 CE.

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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).
  1. [... באלה]י כי הלבישני בגדי ישע
  2. [...] פאר וככלה תעדה כיליה
  3. [... ות]הלה: החתן יתברך ברכת
  4. [... ש]מחה: וששון: ומלוי משאלה
  5. [...] מבעלה כלקנה וברכה כפולה
  6. [...]י ויארירן (!) שנים ותבורך כיעיל
  7. [...] ויזכה לחזות שכלול: לפנים ותוליד בנים
  8. [... כפ]נינה חתן וכלה ו[יב]נו ויצליחו שניהם
  9. [...] מרינן בנין [ומ]צלחין: ביום תלתא
  10. [... יו]מין בירחא דאב דהיא שנת אלפא [[ותשעין]]
  11. [... ו]שתא שנין: למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בםדינת
  12. [... מו]תבה: ולשון נחל מצרים הקראוי נילוס על גבה
  13. [... אמ]רית מן דעתי וטובתי וצביוני נפשי כד לא
  14. [... ר]וה חמרא למסב לי: לאנתו ית דלאל
  15. [...]דאהוי זני\\י\\ן ומפרנסין ומלבושין
  16. [...] גוברין יהודיין דזניין
  17. [... ומיק]רין ית נש[יהון] בקושטא
  18. [...] \\..ה\\ ברת הס יפת ורצאת:
  19. [...] כ[ה]לכת: נשיה כשירתא
  20. [... בע]ליהון: בהימנותא
  21. [... ומ]נית לה ית מ
  22. [...].ה מניה
  23. [....]. עליה
  24. [...] זל לכלתא
  25. [...]יהון
  26. [...]י
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. [I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in] my [God;] for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,  
  2. [He has covered me with the robe of victory, as a bridegroom puts on a priestly] diadem, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  3. [So the Lord God will cause victory and gl]ory [to spring forth.] May the groom be blessed the blessing of
  4. [... ha]ppiness and rejoicing and fulfillment of requests
  5. [...] from her husband like Elkanah and a double blessing
  6. [...] and may they have length of years. And may she be blessed like Yael
  7. [...] and may he merit to see the completion of the Temple. And may she give birth to sons
  8. [... like Pe]ninnah. Bridegroom and bride. They built and prospered, the two of them
  9. [...] our masters built and prospered. On the third day
  10. [... da]ys in the month Av, which is one thousand, ⟦ninety⟧
  11. [... and] six years, of the era to which we are accustomed in the city
  12. [... which is lo]cated [on the sea], with the tongue of the Stream of Egypt called the Nile on top of it.
  13. [...] “I, [... sai]id, intentionally, voluntarily, and of my own choice, not
  14. [coerced ... not in]toxicated, to take as my wife Dalāl 
  15. [... with intention] to nourish, provide for, clothe  
  16. [... in the manner of] Jewish men, who nourish 
  17. [... and hon]or [their] wiv[es], faithfully.  
  18. [...] daughter of the ... Japheth, and she desired
  19. [...] in the manner of respectable wives  
  20. [...] their [hus]bands, faithfully.  
  21. [... and] she [app]ointed as her (agent, our) m(aster)  
  22. [...] from him  
  23. [...] upon her (him?)  
  24. [...] r(emembered) for (good) to the bride  
  25. [...] their  
  26. …

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