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In her will, Cali names her married daughter Sippora as her universal heir, and and leaves gifts of clothing to another married daughter, Charistella, and to Charistella's daughter Baxeba. She also leaves money for a poor girl's dowry. Sippora's…

Cassena's husband Gracianus de Vita is still alive when she testates. Her first concern is her burial, which is to be at the Jewish cemetery in Trapani. The choice to address burial first seems to be the preference of the notary Cirami, who also…

Chana, who is married at the time she testates, leaves her property to her two children, Rocconella and Busacca. Should they both die, she declares, the estate would go to her uncle, Sabet Xonnina. She does not leave any bequests to her husband.

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…

Consola is a businesswomen on her deathbed in her son Elia's house. She is co-owner of a taverna and a pescaria, and her will mostly deals with money she owes related to these businesses. Her will is recorded by either Leone (father) or Isach (son)…