University of Pennsylvania, Halper 366

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25652

Shelfmark:

Halper 366

Title:

Marriage contract

Marriage contract

Scribe:

Yefet ben Daṿid, -1057

Yefet ben Daṿid WIKIDATA

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

1026-1056?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment, cropped; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment, cropped; verso is blank

Note:

A fragment from the middle of a ketubah. Most of the details are missing from the fragment, except for the name of the bridegroom, Ghaleb.
Listed b E. Bareket: Shafrir Mitsraim / Elinoar Bareket. Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University, 1995, p. 265, as one of over 100 Genizah documents written by Japheth ben David, who served between 1014-1056 as the Ḥazzan and scribe of the Erets Israel community of Fustat, which housed the Genizah. See Bareqet, ibid. pp. 122-132. Dated documents from his hand range from 1026-1056.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Marriage (Jewish law)

Ketubah

Antenuptial contracts (Jewish law)

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420443503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3mk65t0j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania