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AGNESA wife of Busacca Naguay.pdf
Agnesa testates while ill, naming her husband her universal heir and executor. She leaves donations to the synagogues in Palermo and Trapani, and to the burial society of Palermo. She leaves two silver Torah finials to the synagogue in Trapani…

Altadonna's husband is a physician. She names him her universal heir. She also leaves a Torah scroll, silver finials, and other ornaments (worth 12 ounces) to the synagogue in Palermo. She leaves 3 tari to her sister Gimula, wife of Benedetto…

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.…

Among her bequests, Suna left money to community leaders, and loaves of baked bread to the confraternity of the Jews for the sake of her soul.

Wuhsha's Will from Goitein, A Jewish Business Woman 229-232.pdf
This is the will of the famed Jewish businesswoman known as "Wuhsha the Broker" (Wuhsha al-Dallala), whose given name was Karima. Although it is not dated, the informal document was written in the hand of the cantor and court clerk Hillel ben Eli,…

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TRANSCRIPTION: FF. In nomine domini amen. Notum sit et cetera annodomini Millesimo CCClxxxxviiii die vii mensis Novembris circa terciam. Notum sit et cetera quod cum nil sit certius morte quamvis eius hora sit dubia et inserta idcirco ego Sterella…

Parnatissa seems to be a widow. She had two daughters, Cali (widow of a man named Sabatheus, and mother to a daughter named Anastassu) and Parmya (married to Samerya de Rodo, i.e. from Rhodes, and mother to a girl named Cali?).

Parnatissa names…

TRANSCRIPTION:Regina uxor Bondia Coras Iudei condam, licet sim infirma etc., meum facio et condo testamentum de bonis meis, ordinando etc. [deleted: in quo constituo]. In primis iubeo corpus meum sepeliri.Et iubeo dari Iuceff Choen C solidos, quos ei…

Among the fascinating clauses in this will is an attempt by Astruga to prevent  her husband, Jucef, from remarrying -- or at least to disincentivize a second marriage. She first leaves to her mother, Fava, 600 Barcelonan sous. But then, she…

The widow Reina distributed 2,720 sous in her will. She gave 500 sous to marry off poor Jewish girls, and orders money to be invested to finance a Torah for the synagogue. She leaves money to family and friends, most notably 1000 sous to a female…

Ginevra was a silk manufacturer. Among her bequests she left money to the synagogue for lighting, and charity for the Jewish burial and charity society. Stefanie Siegmund suggests that this will may have been written during a pregnancy; Ginevra was…

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…

Laura dictated her will to the Jewish rabbi/notary Salamone di Santoro da Pitigliano, and he recorded it in Italian. Detailed Description from Kenneth Stow: Laura di q.m Moise Abbina, widow of q.m Elia di Perugia, alias di Pinto, writes her will and…

DETAILED DESCRIPTION FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT:Deathbed declaration, AD 1006. ORC 7/10/86 [P]. The document is a deathbed declaration, made by a woman whose name is not preserved. The upper part of the document is missing, but the…

TRANSCRIPTION from BLASCO ORELLANA et al. Dona Oro.pdf
Oro, the wife of a scion of a well-known family, dictates a long Hebrew will in early summer of 1463 when is she healthy, as she says, in both body and mind. The introductory materials have Oro insisting that, in the bad times in which she lives, no…

Lachayna came from a wealthy family with business interests across the Mediterranean.

As was common in Sicilian wills in this period, Lachayna first declares that she wants to be buried in the Jewish cemetery of her city. She also left a measure…

Ricca leaves bequests to the synagogues of Sciacca, Trapani, and Caltabellotta. As is typical in these Sicilian sources, the synagogue is called a "miskita" (i.e. mosque). She also leaves money to marry off Jewish orphan girls, along with bequests to…

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…

The widow Perna testates while ill, and names her two daughters (Chyassona, widow of David de Ixe; and Fadalona, wife of Moxe de Pulvirecta) as her universal heirs.

Clearly a wealthy woman with many assets, Perna leaves many material objects to…

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,…
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