Scholarship on Legal document: CUL Add.3388

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).

[... חתן וכלה יבנו ויצליחו
[... נ]תשעין וארבע שנין לשטרות בדמשיק מדינתא דעל נהרי אמנה ופרפר
[...]הנעלה כירח יכון עולם ועד בשחק נאמן סלה והדרת אדוננו עטרת ראשנו
[...]רבה דארעא דישראל זצו'ל אתכתב שטר פרנא הדין איך אתא לקדמינא
[...]מטיבותיה ומצביוני נפשיה כדלא אניס ולא עציב ולא משודל ולא רוי

חמר

[...]\\דהות שבויתא ופרקה רחמנא\\ לי לאנתו ולאמהון דבנין כדת משה

וישראל בקידושין גמורין ואנא אפלח

[...]בקושטא ושמעת ליה כלתא דא ורצת וצבת להתנסבא ליה ולמפלח
[...]בדכיו ובנקיו וקיבלה כלתא דא קידושיה בפני חתומי מטה וקביל על
[...ופ]לגא דחזון ודאשתאר תוספה חוב שריר ובריר לית לה
[... סיפ]וקה וקביל עלוהי חתנא דנן אחריות

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).

[.. .GROO]M AND BRIDE. MAY THEY BUILD AN D PROSPER.
[... and] ninety-four years according to (the era of) documents, in the city of Damascus, which is on the rivers Amanah and Parpar.
[...] the exalted, as the moon, established forever, an enduring witness in the sky. Selah. And the glory of our lord, crown of our head
[... the head of the] great [Academy/Court] of the land of Israel, may the) m(emory of a) p(ious) a(nd saintly man) b(e a blessing), this marriage contract was written: There came before us
[... and said] voluntarily and of his own choice, not being coerced, nor constrained, nor enticed, nor intoxicated
[“...] \\a former captive woman whom the Merciful has ransomed// [to be] to me wife and the mother of children, according to the law of Moses and Israel, in complete qiddushin. And I will serve,
[...] faithfully." And this bride listened to him (accepted his proposal) and willingly consented to be married to him and to serve,
[...] in purity and cleanness. This bride received her betrothal gift (qiddushin) in the presence of the undersigned. And [the groom] undertook
[...her mohar of twelve zuz and a h]alf, due her, and that which remains as an additional gift, a strong, firm debt. She has no
[right to claim one penny, as long ... and he fulfills] her [three ne]eds. And this groom took upon himself the security

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