University of Pennsylvania, Halper 331

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25711

Shelfmark:

Halper 331

Title:

Ḳetubah

Ketubah

Place:

Orient

Date:

869 or 870

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Aramaic

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment; incomplete, cropped beneath final line

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment; incomplete, cropped beneath final line

Note:

The oldest dated Genizah document. A draft of a ḳetubah, in which the writing is interrupted after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 Tishre 1183 (שבת אשר בתשרי [...] אלפא ומאת ותמנ״ן מציון ותלת), Seleucid year (לשתרות). The parchment has been cut off beneath this final line. On the right margin: ברוך ייי הללויה מציון שכון ירושלום (sic!).
Verso contains a secondary inscription, added much later, which fits the cut of the discarded parchment. It contains a Midrashic passage in Aramaic about the humility of Adam among the creatures. The term בקא (single flea) appears, which is mentioned but once in Rabbinic literature (Talmud Ḥulin 58b).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Ketubah

Antenuptial contracts (Jewish law)

Adam (Biblical figure)

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)

Midrash

Marriage (Jewish law)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9934790513503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rf5m071/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania