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Or 14903/1

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Or 14903/1
Title:
Samaritan ketubah
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:
1779
End Date:
1779
Date Range:
1779
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abd Yahweh b. Joseph b. Abd Hanuna
Abdallah b. Muslim b. Murjan
Abraham b. Abd Yahweh
Abraham b. Isaac
David Solomon Sassoon
Joseph b. Ab Zehuta
Joseph b. Joshua b. Marhib
Marhib b. Joshua b. Marhib
Murjan al-Murjani
Salama b. Ab Zehuta
Sara bat Ishmael b. Abraham
Shelah b. Isaac
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Or 14903/1

Samaritan ketubah

Contents

Samaritan marriage contract.

Language(s): Samaritan

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Title: Ketubah
Title: כתובה

Marriage contract of Abd Yahweh b. Joseph b. Abd Hanuna (Abd al Latif), and Sara bat Ishmael b. Abraham, Danfi family.

The bride price was 4900 kerita Mitsri.

Nine signatures giving the names of scribe and witnesses: Salama b. Ab Zehuta, Safr family; Joseph b. Ab Zehuta, Safr family, brother of Salama; Abdallah b. Muslim b. Murjan, Danfi family; Shelah b. Isaac, Danfi family; Abraham b. Isaac, Danfi, brother of Shelah; Joseph b. Joshua b. Marhib, Marhib family; Murjan al-Murjani, Danfi family; Abraham b. Abd Yahweh, Safr family; and the scribe (also acted as witness): Marhib b. Joshua b. Marhib, Marhib family.

Not included into the NLI online catalogue.

Bound together with two more Samaritan marriage contracts: Or 14903/2 and Or 14903/3.

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support: Paper sheet mounted on linen.
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 432 × 544 mm.
Dimensions (written): 348 × 393 mm.

Collation

On guard.

Condition

Water damage, smudged ink, tears at folding lines.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 47

Written lines: 47

Text on recto side only.

Left margin is justified.

Text of the contract is divided from the signatures below by a line of simple ink decoration.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script and Arabic script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, brown cloth binding.

Title on spine: 'Sassoon 413. 724. 725.'

Accompanying Material

In a pocket on back pastedown: three documents: 1) part of a manila envelope addressed to Mrs. F. Sassoon, 32 Bruton Street, Mayfair, W1, and on its back handwritten description of MS 724; 2) part of the manila envelope with the handwritten description of MS 725; 3) 'Manuscript circulation list' - printed form.

History

Origin: 1779

Provenance and Acquisition

David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942): collector of Jewish manuscripts.

Acquired from the Sassoon collection, at the Sotheby's sale in London, June 1994; lot 68.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Crown, Alan David. A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    Gaster, M., 'Die Ketubbah der Samaritaner', Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 54 (1910): 174, 289, 436-436 [Reprinted in Studies and texts in folklore, magic, mediaeval romance, Hebrew apocrypha and Samaritan archaeology vol.1, pp. 124-204].
    Sassoon, D.S., אהל דוד (Ohel Dawid) Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), v. 1, p. 249-250, no. 108.
    Pummer, R., Samaritan Marriage Contracts and Deeds of Divorce, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993), pp. 102, 111, 135, 189, 197, 208, plate xiv, xix, xxv.
    Seventy-six important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the library of the late David Solomon Sassoon ... : day of sale: Tuesday 21st June 1994 (London: Sotheby's, 1994), p. 127, lot 68.
    Crown, Alan David. A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 54.

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