University of Pennsylvania, Halper 364

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26086

Shelfmark:

Halper 364

Title:

Marriage contract (draft)

Ketubah

Place:

Ramla

Ramle TGN

Date:

1062 or 1069

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Aramaic

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment (center area), torn, faded; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment (center area), torn, faded; verso is blank

Note:

First two lines, biblical citations, denoted by a bar above each letter.
A fragment from the upper part of the center of a Ketubah document, given by Abraham ben Ṣedaka to the daughter of Pinḥas ben Levi the Elder. Abraham is a signed as a witness on a bill of appointment issuedḅy the Erets Israeli Gaonate in 1065 (Cambridge TS 10J 26 fol. 1/ Oxford Bodleian Heb. d.66 fol. 4, in Gil, Erets Israel, 1983 vol. IIIp. 26).
The date (l. 3) is in the month of Shevat, in the sixth year of the sabbatical cycle, which could be either 1062 or 1069. In l. 4 is the allusion to Ramle: באחסנת ב]ני יהודה].
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Ketubah

Marriage

Antenuptial contracts (Jewish law)

Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)

Middle East--Palestine

Marriage (Jewish law)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420423503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3w37md8f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania