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Or 8663

Record Id:
032-003457171
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003457171
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8663
Title:
Marriage contract and divorce letter
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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032-003457171
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Hierarchy:
032-003457171
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 folio
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8663 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1064
End Date:
1065
Date Range:
1064-1065
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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TEI:

Or 8663

Marriage contract and divorce letter

Contents

A parchment piece with a marriage contract and a divorce letter appended to it.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Ketubah and geṭ

The marriage contract (ketubah) is written on the upper part in larger characters; the geṭ (divorce letter) is added at the end with smaller characters.

Both seem to be dated to 1376 SE, that is, 1064-1065 CE.

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script.

History

Origin: 1064-1065

Provenance and Acquisition

Cairo Genizah

Acquired in 1920.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the TEI records received from the Friedberg Genizah Project and the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel. For more a detailed record, consult the Friedberg Genizah Project catalogue (https://fjms.genizah.org/).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8663 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    G. Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1899-1935, 4 vols), vol. IV, p. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL