Meir ha-Ḥazan and Sitt al-Khibā’ bat Tahor

Nothing is known about Meir, a ḥazan (cantor), and Sitt al-Khibā’, whose names appear in a betrothal contract from Fustāt (Old Cairo) in the late twelfth century. A ketubah preserved in the Cairo Geniza may also be theirs (T-S 24.17). Its fragmentary text features a bride named Khibā’ and a groom whose first name is missing; what remains is “ben Levi ha-Levi he-ḥaver (the fellow) the ḥazan.”