Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 348: Marriage contract of Ḳarimah daughter of R. Natsr (El'azar) Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 348: Marriage contract of Ḳarimah daughter of R. Natsr (El'azar) 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/. When combined, the 2 fragments form about three quarters of the document. The date is in the missing, upper right quarter. The description of Karimah's dowry includes a young black (כושיא) slave girl, inherited from her mother; The bridegroom is Joseph ben Solomon. Issued in the court of Joseph ben & the Judge (השופט), the witnesses sign Ḥalfon ben Mevorakh, Judah ben Moses he-Ḥazan and Joseph ben [...]; Verso bears secondary inscriptions on each half, written in the opposite direction of the recto; Left half of verso is a panegyric poem in Hebrew, in Wafir meter, monorhymed ים-. Probably in honor of a donor, as is inferred by the lineלך השר וראש כל הנדיבים; Right half of verso is another poem of the same type, in praise of the Rosh Yeshivah: הלא הוא בחיר ראשי ישיבות. Long and irregular verses, monorhymed בא-. There are many corrections, indicating that this is a draft copy. In both poems verse endings denoted by a colon; There are a number of writing exercises in the margins. One of them is possibly a date אלף תרנ״ז (i.e., 1346). Condition: 2 fragments; damaged, torn, faded; folded lengthwise into two unequal halves. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 348 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420193503681 Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew Marriage contract of Ḳarimah daughter of R. Natsr (El'azar) 30.5 X 12.7 cm (Halper 341); 12.7 X 17.8 (Halper 348) Columns: 1 (recto), 2 (verso); lines: 8 (recto Halper 341), 8 (recto Halper 348). Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

ca. late 11th cent.

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