Legal document: ENA NS 8.15

Legal document ENA NS 8.15

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ENA NS 8.15
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Betrothal register from a court book, 1023 (per Friedman, based on comparison to ENA 4010.28 which he identifies as another leaf from the same register, and bears an exact date in 1023). From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and Bodl. MS heb. c 13/21 (bears an exact date in 1028).

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 8, f. 15; ENA NS 8, fol. 15
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In PGP since 2017
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ENA NS 8.15 1

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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. [...]ן ....ן .......[...]
  2. [...].ן [. .] חמ[...]
  3. [...] .א......ן בלי עיכוב [...]
  4. [...חס ו]שלום ואעכב ... [...]
  5. [...]קודם הכנסתה יהוי [...]
  6. [...].רה דינרין תקולין תמ[ניא ...] ?
  7. {בא} ושליש דנ.........ש... [...]
  8. הקדוש ועשרין וחמשה ... [...]
  9. ואלין מה דאעלת הדה . .[...]
  10. ..אל.[..].. את.... ..[...]
  11. וכלי ביתא וכלי נחש ובגדים ..[...]
  12. דינרין שילום ב...... הדה [...]
  13. וישלם תלתא ויטול .. ש...... [...]
  14. הדה טליתא ת...ל...... [...]
  15. יזכון בכל מה דיש[תייר ...]
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. ...  
  2. ...  
  3. [...] without delay [...]  
  4. [... If God] forbid, I delay ...  
  5. [...] before marrying her, there will be [...] 
  6. [...]... fully weighed dinars eigh[t...]  
  7. ... and one third ... 
  8. the betrothal (qiddush) and twenty-five ...  
  9. And these are what this [...] brought ...  
  10. …
  11. and house furnishings, copper vessels, and clothing …
  12. dinars, remainder ... this [...] 
  13. and he will pay three and will take ... 
  14. this girl ...  
  15. they will acquire all that re[mains ...]

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA NS 8.15. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/835/ (accessed October 14, 2026).