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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 daughter she had with Moshe פרנשי and who is the wife of Shemuel b. Shelomo כראת, and other possessions to her other daughter Milāḥ, and other possessions are to be divided evenly between the two daughters. This is a large and well-preserved document; needs further examination.

Editor: Ed. and trans. Dotan Arad, "Documents in Arabic and Judeo-Arabic Relative to the History of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem‎" (in Hebrew), in The History of Jerusalem: The Mamluk Period (1260-1517)‎ (2013). Arad provides a partial transcription/translation up until line 10.

Library: JTS

Type: Legal document

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