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DESCRIPTION FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT:Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1806 Seleucid, which is 1495 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar Bek leaves some of her possessions (deposited in Alexandria) to the…

This will is part of the so-called "Girona Geniza," which is a collection of Hebrew documents which were preserved because they were reused as book bindings. Baladre's will was part of the binding of a notarial register belonging to the notary…

New Christian (conversa) testator. Although she testated in Barcelos, Portugal, she owned one of the houses in the old Jewish quarter of Porto, Portugal, that later remained in the hands of New Christians families. It is the set of 30 houses…

Belaere's husband is listed as a "magister," a state-approved medical doctor, and more specifically as a surgeon (the level below physician). In the will, Belaere leaves a significant part of her estate to her daughter Bonadona, who had been married…

Benvenida was a member of the famous Sephardic Abravanel family, from Naples, resident in Ferrara. The will records that Benvenida had already made a will in Hebrew on the very same day. This Latin will, however, states that it is explicitly meant to…

Blanca was a conversa who had perhaps been baptized in the aftermath of the Disputation of Tortosa (1413-1414). She and her husband had been married as Jews, and then converted, as evinced in the husband's will. (See Planas Marcé, 656 for more on…

This is the first of three wills made by Donna Brunetta over the course of October and November 1535.

This is the second of three wills made by Donna Brunetta in October and November 1535.

This is the last of three wills Donna Brunetta made during October and November 1535.

Brunetta lived in the Elsa river valley (Valdelsa) in a town called Poggibonsi. She had two sons, Elia and Daniele with her husband Salomone. Daniele seems to have died before Brunetta testated. (She also had two daughters, Rosa and Gemma, who did…

Bullara, a widow, records her will when she is sick.

She names her grandson Sadiolus Sieli her universal heir. She leaves bed-related goods to her granddaughter Luna. She also leaves other female loved ones clothing and textile goods.

Bullara…

Cali's husband Isach Catalan is listed as a "magister," i.e. a medical doctor with state approval.