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Or 12375 I

Record Id:
032-003317020
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032-003317020
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12375 I
Title:
Marriage contract
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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032-003317020
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
A single sheet of paper.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12375_I (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1813
End Date:
1814
Date Range:
1813-1814
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Salama ben Tabya
TEI:

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Or 12375 I

Marriage contract

Contents

Marriage contract

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

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

Ketubah for the marriage of Abd Harahaman ben Abd He'ashir ben Shelah, Danfi family, and the unnamed daughter of Ab Sakhwa ben Abd Hanunah, Danfi family.

Bride was given away by her brother, Salama ben Ab Skhwa with a dowry of 4900 Egyptian perutot.

Signed by 5 witnesses.

Colophon:

Physical Description

A single sheet of paper, no watermark.
Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: A single sheet of paper.
Dimensions (leaf): 373 × 535 mm.
Foliation:

Collation

Condition

Folding lines, upper margin slightly torn.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 49

Black iron gall ink.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 19th century.

Scribe: Salama ben Tabya, the Priest.

Binding

Housed in a folder with 9 other sheets.

History

Origin: 1813-1814 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript (no Gaster number); 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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12375_I (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 106, no. 71.
    Pummer, R., Samaritan Marriage Contracts and Deeds of Divorce, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993), p. 102, 195, plate xviii.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 53.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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