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Ster's will suggests that she was very poor.

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STELLA widow of Farachio de Bulfarachio.pdf
Stella is the widow of Farachio De Bulfarachio, also known as Nissim ben Shabbetai Abu-l Faraj, a Arab-Spanish rabbi.

In her will, the widow Stella names her son Jeremiah as her universal heir. She leaves to her daughter Channa, wife David de…

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Stella di Spoleto is married, but does not seem to have children. She dictates her will to the Jewish rabbi/notary Grandilio di Porto, who records it in Italian. In the will, she leaves 1 scudo to the confraternity known as the Compagnia of Ghemilut…

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Soi testates during an illness. She names her husband Chavi as her executor, and leaves all of her goods to her daughter Eudochia, who seems to be a minor. Although Soi does not say this explicitly, the goods seem to be meant as a dowry, since she…

FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT: Fragment of a will of the teacher Sittuna bat Avraham the parnas. She leaves a property to the son of her sister's daughter, who will pay her funeral expenses out of the income of this property, and her personal…

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Sitt al-Husn was married to a scholar/judge, and dictated her deathbed will on a Saturday. Due to the prohibition of writing on Sabbath, the will could not be recorded until the Sabbat was over. The bequests include manumissions and real estate gifts…

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Sitt al-Dallal's will functions as a manumission writ for an enslaved woman. This is a common use of wills across the medieval Mediterranean, though less common for Jews in Christian Europe (since Jews could not keep Christian slaves). DESCRIPTION…

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Sitt al-Ahl, a married woman, testates while pregnant. The will is recorded by Halfon b. Menashe, a well-known court clerk/scribe, in Judeo-Arabic.DETAILED DESCRIPTION FROM PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT:Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.…

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT: Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April 1143 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b.…

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Sisa names her three grandchildren, Moyses, Xalomus, and Sisa, as her universal heirs. Her son Borach Buxixa is named her guarantor ("fideiussorem particolarem").

Sisa leaves clothing as bequests. She also leaves a cape (caputeum) to Yosep de…

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This will of a lonely Jewish widow was recorded by a Jewish notary in Hebrew, either by Leone (father) or Isach (son) Piattelli.TRANSCRIPTION:In the Scola Siciliana, in the women’s gallery, Simcha, widow q.m Giacobbe Siciliano, on her deathbed, gives…

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Simcha was a member of the Portuguese Jewish diaspora living in Ferrara following the expulsion. Her will demonstrates that she was a high-level businesswoman. She left 2050 scudi to a certain Rodrigo Alvarez, and another 600 scudi to her executor.

Shul makes a deathbed will, which is recorded in Hebrew. There seems to be a tension expressed in the will over who receives her estate. DESCRIPTION FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT: Legal document. Will from 1527 drawn up by Shul (Sul, Shol), the…

Seti testates while during an illness. She names her paternal aunt (an "amita") Helea as her executor. She records that her dowry is 200 hyperpera and a home, located on the top floor in the Judaica of Candia. She leaves all of this to her aunt, and…

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Senna's will exists in two copies from the same notary, and is the oldest known surviving Jewish woman's will from fifteenth-century Florence.

Senna, a widow, belonged to a family identified as "da Perugia." At the time of her testating, she…

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The widow Sarella, who Kenneth Stow considers to be reasonably well off, testates while in the house of her daughter Consola's father-in-law. The will is taken by the Jewish notary Yahudah (Leone) Piattelli in Hebrew. This is pre-Ghetto text.…

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Sara married Davi of Cabestany, a major moneylender of Perpignan, and together seem to have had three sons: Mosee, Bonsenyor, and Profet. Davi predeceased her.

In her will, she leaves nothing to her sons, since ostensibly they had already been…

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