Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 152: Instructions and texts for bethrothal and wedding ceremony in Judeo-Arabic Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 152: Instructions and texts for bethrothal and wedding ceremony in Judeo-Arabic are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. In one place the Arabic narrative is separated from the text by a period; The recto starts with the end of the ketubah text, (ibid. chapter 28 p. 190) which is missing in the Oxford ms., as the author states (p. 132 l. 8, in the ms. recto ll. 16-17) that the text is omitted here because it appears in the chapter of document formularies (chapter 28); This is followed by the ceremony instructions under the headingתרתיב עקד אלקידושין ואמא תרתיב ברכת אירוסין. The Blessing of Betrothal ends as in the Oriental custom: מקדש ישראל. Unlike the printed edition, here the first of the Nupital Blessings ends shhkl br ́lkbvd shmv. This unusual version is also found in one copy of Hilkhot Alfasi British Library Or. 5558 N fol. 79; the fragment ends toward the end of the Marital Blessings קול חתן וקול. Condition: complete; cropped(?). United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 152 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418403503681 Judeo-Arabic; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) Instructions and texts for bethrothal and wedding ceremony in Judeo-Arabic

Paper

 18.7 X 13 cm Columns: 1; lines: 17 (recto), 18 (verso); ruling method: poorly ruled; no margin, writing to left edge of recto (cropped?). Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive Material applied: black ink

12th century-13th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Amram. Ketubah