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Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April 1143 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Testator: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār al-Iskandarānī, the wife of Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī al-Tājir. Witnesses: Yosef b. Thābit ha-Levi; Shelomob. Natan ha-Haver. "This remarkable deathbed declaration, on the one hand, shows the cosmopolitan character of Fustat: the daughter of a druggist called 'the Alexandrian' was married there to a merchant 'from Aleppo.' […]
As his guardian and her own executor she appointed a brother of her former husband (Abū Mūsā Hārūn/Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen). The main purport of the will was the legal protection of her parents, brother (Abū l-Surūr), and boy against her present husband and providing a sumptuous burial for herself.
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף צואה דא כן היה פי
- יום אלארבעא אלסאדס ואלעשרין מן אייר דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין וארבע שנין
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Yosef ha-Levi, son of Thābit, (may he) r(est in) E(den). Shelomo, son of Natan he-ḥaver, (may he) r(est in) E(den).- Related People
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