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  1. 1LetterAIU VII.E.154

    Fragment of a medieval letter in Judaeo-Arabic giving a detailed account of a legal case involving a husband, a wife, her ketubba, sums of 12 …

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  2. 2Legal documentBL OR 5532.1

    Formulary for a Karaite ketubba. See Mann, Texts and Studies, 174–76. Information from Goitein's note card.

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    1. ויבנה מקדשו ואולמו   וישיב כבודו להדומו    ויראה בעוני
    2. עמו   יחיש [ב]שורותם וישנם לחירותם     וישיבם על אדמת
    3. ם ויטעם ב[נח]לתם    בחיי כבוד גדו…

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    1. He will rebuild His sanctuary and His hall. He will return His Glory to His throne. He will look into the misery
    2. of His people, hasten their g…

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  3. 3Legal documentBL OR 10118.7

    Legal document having to do with the ketubba of the groom Yosef. Signed by חטר (?) b. Shalem and Yosef b. Avraham.

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  4. 4Legal documentBL OR 10653.1

    Ketubba. Dated: 9 Tammuz 2191 Seleucid = 18 June 1880 CE. Groom: Yos[ef] b. Sulayman b. Avraham al-Sabari. Bride: Ghina bt. Y[.]ya b. Yahya [...] …

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  5. 5Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/39

    Marriage contract. Groom: Yefet b. Saʿadya. Bride: Ḍiyāʾ bt. Yehuda. One of the witnesses is Mevorakh b. ʿElī Ibn Zarʿa. Location: Fustat. Dating: Thursday, 14th …

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  6. 6Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/45

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Ḥasan b. Yefet. Bride: Rayyisa bt. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 [...] 1345 Seleucid = 1033/34 CE. The marriage gifts …

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  7. 7Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/46

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 13 Tishrei 1608 Seleucid, which is 11 September 1296 CE. Groom: Elʿazar b. Shelomo. Bride: [...] bt. Yosef. Lists the trousseau …

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  8. 8Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/3

    Fragment from the top of an enormous ketubba. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Illuminated in various colors and decorated with flowers. Location: …

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  9. 9Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/1

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Left upper part. Dated: Nisan 1380 Seleucid = March/April 1069 CE. Bride: Dora bt. Saʿīd. Marriage payments: (10 +) 20 = 30. …

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  10. 10Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/14

    Ketubba, fragmentary. Groom: Yosef Kohen b. Khalūf. Likely from North Africa. Resembles Bodl. MS heb. a 2/2 (from Barqa, 990 CE). (Information from Friedman, Jewish …

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  11. 11Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 76/55

    Marriage contract for Shelomo b. Yosef and Munā bt. ʿAmram. Marriage payment: 1 + 15? From somewhere in Egypt. Dated 1086/87 CE (1398 Seleucid).

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  12. 12Legal documentBodl. MS. Heb. d. 65/22-23

    Ketubba fragments. Lower part. One of the witnesses is Shelomo b. Yosef. There is literary text on verso.

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  13. 13LetterCUL Or.1080 J90

    Letter addressed to Mevorakh/Mabrūk b. Yefet. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the arrangements for the sender's upcoming marriage (e.g., the stipulations of the ketubba and the size …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אוגה הדא(!) אלאסטר אעלם אלחצרה
    3. אן כאן כתאבהא אלכרים וצל לחאל
    4. אלגיזה וקד אנפדת כתאבין במא
    5. יכון ומא אעלם הל וצלו אם לא ואלדי
    6. אעלם אלחצרה איש מ…

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  14. 14Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J157

    Ketubba fragment. Calligraphic.

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  15. 15Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J205

    Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1462 Seleucid = 1150/51 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Bride: Turfa …

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  16. 16Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J206

    Legal fragment. Marriage contract. Dated: 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …

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  17. 17Legal documentCUL Or.1081 1.38

    Ketubba fragment for Peraḥya ha-Kohen and 'the virgin bride [...].'

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  18. 18List or tableENA 2738.8

    Fragment of a ketubba. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (part of his signature survives). Some of the items of the dowry and their …

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  19. 19Legal documentENA NS 7.20

    Marriage document, parchment, middle fragment only. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  20. 20Legal documentENA NS 16.6

    A Palestinian marriage contract from Ḥaṣor. The groom ([...] b. Yefet) is to pay 10 dinars as the “security” of the marriage contract. (Information from …

    1. יבנו ויצליחו
    2. . . .]דשמטתא מא דהיא שתא ארבע[
    3. . . .] דחצור דעל גף ימא דמליחה     אתכ[תב
    4. . . .] בר יפת ננ אמר מן דעתי ומן רעותיה ומן טבותיה ומן צביני
    5. נ…
    1. [...] May they build and prosper.
    2. [ ... year ... ] of the shemiṭṭa, which is year four [thousand ...]
    3. [...] of Ḥaṣor which is on the shore of the sa…

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  21. 21Legal documentHalper 366

    Ketubba fragment. The groom is named Ghālib.

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  22. 22Legal documentJRL SERIES B 3085

    Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubba from Fustat. No identifying information remains.

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  23. 23Legal documentJRL SERIES B 3738

    The end of a ketubba. There is some sort of reshut clause at the end of the document, invoking Rosh Galutenu ... Nagidenu. . . …

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  24. 24Legal documentL-G Misc. 98

    Legal document. Ketubba. Dating: early 11th century. Bride: Dalāl. Early marriage payment: 30 dinars. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)

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  25. 25Legal documentMIAC 203

    Ketubbah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 203) – in Hebrew and Aramaic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …

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  26. 26Legal documentMoss. V,375

    Fragment from a ketubba written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The bride’s name is Diyār. There is another minute fragment bound together with the ketubba, …

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  27. 27Legal documentMoss. VII,33.1

    Fragment of a ketubba from Fustat probably from the year [13]93 = 1081/82 CE.

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  28. 28Legal documentMoss. VII,93.3

    Marriage contract, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Bride: [...] bt. Avraham. In Aramaic.

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  29. 29Legal documentMoss. X,115.2

    Small fragment from a ketubah? - needs examination. No image

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  30. 30Legal documentPER H 19

    Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1310–55 CE, based on the reshut clause naming the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (b. Avraham II Maimonides). Bride: Sitt al-Karam bt. …

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  31. 31Legal documentSBB MSS simulata orientalia 6, fol. 24

    Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Only the recto was photographed. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Ga'on. Location: …

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  32. 32Legal documentT-S 8.225 + T-S 28.23

    4 fragments of a ketubah from 1106. The bride is Sitt al-Dar b. Yefet. The groom is Eli b. Yehezkel ha-Haver be-Sanhedrin Gedola. Contains also …

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S 8.239 + Bodl. MS heb. a 3/36

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qūṣ. Bride: Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda. See description for MS 8254, fol. 15 (PGPID 32292) for the whole story.

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  34. 34Legal documentT-S 12.454

    Legal document fragment (lower left corner), mentioning 'her ketubba.' Signed Yosef b. Shemuel. ASE.

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S 12.455

    Ketubba fragment.

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  36. 36Legal documentT-S 12.572

    Ketubba fragment. Only the ornate text in the upper margin and a few words from the first two lines are preserved.

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  37. 37Legal documentT-S 12.586

    Marriage contract. Dating: first half of the 13th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S …

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  38. 38Legal documentT-S 12.665

    Small fragment of a ketubba. Location: Fustat. Bride: Jadīda. No details preserved. On verso there is one word preserved: "al-Dalāl" (a woman's name) or "al-Dallāl" …

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  39. 39Legal documentT-S 12.763

    Dowry list. Dating: Early 12th century. The marriage is between a widow and a widower, both promising to educate the children of the other party …

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  40. 40Legal documentT-S 12.771

    Replacement of the original contract of marriage between Abū Manṣūr Elazar and his wife Sitt al-Sāda daughter of Abū Karām Nadīv, by a new one, …

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  41. 41Legal documentT-S 12.772

    Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment. See Goitein's note card for some details, including a reference to Med Soc III, p. 414 no. 319a.

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  42. 42Legal documentT-S 16.90

    Ketubba fragment for an unnamed bride and groom. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Shevaṭ 1415 Seleucid = 31 December 1103 CE. With blessings for the Nagid …

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  43. 43Legal documentT-S 16.155 + Halper 333

    Recto: Marriage contract (or renewal of a marriage contract?). Location: Fustat. Date: 13[..] Seleucid, which combined with the fact that the document on verso was …

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  44. 44Legal documentT-S 16.245

    Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Nisan 1326 Seleucid = 5 April 1015 CE. Groom: Ghulayb. Bride: Muʾammala, described as בעולתא (= not …

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  45. 45Legal documentT-S 20.8 + T-S 12.552

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 1467 Seleucid, which is 1156 CE. Groom: Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Avraham. Signed by Berakhot …

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  46. 46Legal documentT-S 20.132

    Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment.

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  47. 47Legal documentT-S 20.142

    Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment. Includes a portion of a dowry list. Signed: Ḥalfon b. Mevasser; Elʿazar ha-Mumḥe; Mevorakh b. Avraham. On verso there are a …

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  48. 48Legal documentT-S AS 15.92

    Top line from a ketubah contains blessings.

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S AS 17.30

    Ketubba, Rabbanite. (Refers to שטר כתובתא דא in the fifth line of the lower fragment.) Groom: ʿOvadya b. [...] Elishaʿ (spelled אליסע). Probably dated Elul …

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  50. 50Legal documentT-S AS 20.90

    Small fragment from a ketubba written by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca.1181–1210). No details preserved.

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