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Cairo Genizah : Legal document: ketubba

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: ketubba for Abraham b. Joseph and Ḥus[n] bat […], written in Fusṭāṭ, with only a partial date preserved. The biblical phrase מצא אשה מצא [טוב] (Provers 18:22) is written, spaced out, in the top margin. In the handwriting of Yefet b. David. Verso: draft of a legal document, written after the ketubba was already torn up, in the hand of Ephraim b. Šemarya. The case was heard in the Synagogue of the Palestinians, and the parties include Faraj b. Kaṯīr, ʿAllūn b. [K]aṯīr and another man as well as two Alexandrians.</p>

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