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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420523503681

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Place

Almuḥbasha, Yemen

Notes

• Recto has 9 staggered lines of liturgical blessings, covering the upper third of the folio, 20 lines of content, and 1 line of signatures; incipits and the names of the parties in enlarged square characters, above a space; The bridegroom is Ḥaim ibn Suleiman. The witnesses are Saʹid ben Sulaiman Najjār and Yaḥyah ben Saʹid Kabāssi. The location is Almuḥbasha in northwest Yemen, described here: דמתקרי שמה קֻזַייִז דעל בריכתא דמים אלקטפ ( "also called Ḳuzayez [Babylonian vocalization] on lake al-Ḳaṭf" [sic! with פ not ף).
   
• Condition: complete; verso is blank.
   

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Black ink

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Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Marriage (Jewish law)

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