[Marriage contract of Ḳarimah daughter of R. Natsr (Elʻazar)] : manuscript
- Alternate Title
- Ḳetubah
- Creator
- Ḥalfon ben Mevorakh (witness)
- Yehudah ben Mosheh, ha-Ḥazan (witness)
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 341
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 348
- Form
- books
- Date
- between 1000 and 1099
- Language
- Hebrew
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subject
- Yosef ben Shelomoh, ha-Kohen, active 11th century Marriage
- Ḳarimah bat Elʹazar Marriage
- Ketubah
- Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
- Laudatory poetry, Hebrew
- Hebrew language -- Writing -- Early works to 1800
- Hebrew language -- Composition and exercises -- Early works to 1800
- Jewish law
- Hebrew language -- Composition and exercises
- Hebrew language -- Writing
- Extent
- 1 folio : 2 fragments; damaged, torn, faded; folded lengthwise into two unequal halves
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- When combined, the 2 fragments form about three quarters of the document. The date is in the missing, upper right quarter. The description of Karimah's dowry includes a young black (כושיא) slave girl, inherited from her mother.
- The bridegroom is Joseph ben Solomon. Issued in the court of Joseph ben & the Judge (השופט), the witnesses sign Ḥalfon ben Mevorakh, Judah ben Moses he-Ḥazan and Joseph ben [...].
- Verso bears secondary inscriptions on each half, written in the opposite direction of the recto.
- Left half of verso is a panegyric poem in Hebrew, in Wafir meter, monorhymed ים-. Probably in honor of a donor, as is inferred by the line לך השר וראש כל הנדיבים.
- Right half of verso is another poem of the same type, in praise of the Rosh Yeshivah: הלא הוא בחיר ראשי ישיבות. Long and irregular verses, monorhymed בא-. There are many corrections, indicating that this is a draft copy. In both poems verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ.
- There are a number of writing exercises in the margins. One of them is possibly a date אלף תרנ״ז (i.e., 1346).
- Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew. Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 341
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 348
- Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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