Cali, wife of Gaudio di Aram: Palermo, 1442

Cali, wife of Gaudio di Aram: Palermo, 1442

Cali, wife of Gaudio di Aram

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 husband Farachi Xami is charged with distributing the dowry, alongside other work associated with his being named executor. Cali's still-living husband is not given any bequests in the will. 

See attached file for TRANSCRIPTION from Simonsohn (see below).

Palermo, Sicily

6 February 1442

Archivio di Stato, Palermo

ASP, not. Nicolo Aprea, reg. 827

See Simonsohn, Jews in Sicily, 11, no. 6872; See Bresc, Arabi, p. 135

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