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Deathbed will in which Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Ḥananel (n’e) endows the enslaved woman who took care of her through illness with freedom (and likely other objects/property in the missing half of this document). Dated: Dated: Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 Seleucid = 1230 CE under the authority of Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Document produced in the home of her son Abū l-Baqāʾ Elʿazar b. Evyatar, who likely inherits property from his mother in the missing part of the document. In the handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? The scribe has reused verso for (1) biblical verses; (2) the beginning of a draft of a letter to the ḥaver Abū l-Bayān; and (3) notes for drawing up a (debt?) contract between Shelomo ha-Levi and Abū Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. RR. ASE. For transcription and Hebrew description, see Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills, #60, pp. 395–96.