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Or 12375 C

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032-003317013
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Or 12375 C
Title:
Marriage contract template
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 sheet
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1924
Date Range:
1900-1924
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Isaac ben Joseph
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Or 12375 C

Marriage contract template

Contents

A dummy Samaritan marriage contract providing a formula for marriage.

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-1v
Author:
Author:
Title: Ketubah
Title: כתובה

Dummy ketubah with names including the general פלאן. The names of the bride and groom are Eve daughter of X and Abraham son of X son of Jacob, the Benjamite.

No date is given.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Single parchment sheet.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support: Parchment
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 420 × 345 mm.
Foliation:

A single parchment sheet.

Collation

Condition

Folding marks, stains, small tears, slight worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 33

Written in black ink on the flesh side.

It has been folded horizontally six times and then folded again vertically.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the early 20th century(?). Scribe is not stated but presumably Isaac ben Joseph.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

A single sheet housed in a folder with 9 other sheets.

History

Origin: 1900-1924 Early 20th century? Shechem

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster received it from the priest, Isaac (cf. Gaster's Handlist).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 871: inscribed on the recto side (top right corner); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Crown, Alan David: A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998).

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Bibliography

    Gaster, M., 'Die Ketubbah der Samaritaner', Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 54 (1910): 184-188 [Reprinted in Studies and texts in folklore, magic, mediaeval romance, Hebrew apocrypha and Samaritan archaeology vol.1, pp. 124-204].
    Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 110.
    Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p.67.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 105, no. 1093.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 105, no. 69.
    Pummer, R., Samaritan Marriage Contracts and Deeds of Divorce, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993), p. 58, 161, plate xxxiv.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 51.

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