Tombstone (Bari, Italy)

Upon Your Name: The memory of the just be blessed! This is the tomb of Rabbi Moshe bar Eliyah, who was gathered from [this] world, in the sixth year of the septennial cycle, that is the year seven…

To all persons seeing this deed, Solomon of Paris, greeting. Know that I have received from Richard de Malbys £4 of the debt which he owes to my master Aaron [of Lincoln] on the first day after…

Let all people present and future know that I, William of Tottenham, owe one hundred silver marks to Avigai of London, a Jewish woman, and to her son Abraham. This sum is due at the next St. Martin’s…

In the name of God the merciful and compassionate. Through our praiseworthy conduct, our impeccable ways, our upright courses and our noble support, through which we have increased in [our own]…

The death of the one deserving of Eden, my cherished brother, the wise, pious, God fearing, elder, Elisha ben Moses Joseph, [occurred] on the Sabbath day, Tishri 24, in the year 1510 [1198]. May his…

We the undersigned witnesses testify unambiguously that the honored marat Bonadona and her husband, the nasi R. Levi son of the nasi Rabbana Moshe said to us: “Be our witnesses and make a qinyan and…