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The widow Channuna, like most Jewish women represented in this collection, testated while sick. As the common boilerplate from Sicily has it, she testated while lying in bed.

Channuna leaves her grandson Magalufus the house in which he is living,…

Chaynorella and her husband make their wills at the same time, with his will following hers. Each spouse bequeaths their estate to the other.

Cherana testates while she is pregnant -- and actually, seems to be in the midst of an increasingly dangerous labor. She names her brother Joseph Missini as her executor. Missini is a Jewish community leader known from both Crete's Hebrew sources and…

Cherana named a female friend, a widow, as her executor. She leaves two homes that she owns in Candia's Jewish quarter to her children, a daughter named Xathi and a son named Ioste.

She seeks to make it known in her will that she had the goods of…

Cheranna testates during an illness. She names her sister Chrusafa and Chrusafa's husband Samargia as her executors.

Cheranna attests that her late mother, Helea, had placed in Cheranna's hands 50 hyperpera that was intended for Chrusafa, but…

Chimefti leaves her son Michael all of her dowry and virginity money (parthenica), which had been transacted "according to Jewish custom."

Claire (Clara) testates in 1386 before the Christian notary in Marseille, and notes that she has done so with the permission of her husband and the authorities. She seems to have no children. She orders that she be buried in the Jewish cemetery, and…

Disiata names as her universal heirs her brother Xibitello de Galiono and her nephew Busacca, the son of Siminto de Galiono (another brother). She leaves other bequests to her neice Rachila, her daughter Gaudiosa, and her sister Stella. She also…

Dolce made her will in her home in Siena, which also functioned as the bank run by her current (second) husband, Jacob di Consiglio da Toscanella. Her husband was present at the testation, and gave his permission for her to make the will.

Dolce…

Among Donna's bequests are those "for the remission of her sins." These include gifts of cloth sufficient to dress two women, Clemenza and Anfrosina. She also leaves money for the dowries of two Jewish Portuguese girls.

This is the first of two wills (plus a codicil) made for Ergina. A second will was written a year later, in June 1509.