Tombstone Inscription (Oria, Italy)
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Tombstone Inscription (Lavello, Italy)
There was a man, the most blessed among sons
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Tombstone Inscriptions (Venosa, Italy)
This monument was established over [the grave of] Abigail bat Hetsron, who died at the age of six, in the year 740 from the destruction of the holy Temple, may it be rebuilt in our days.
Tombstone (Bari, Italy)
This shows a roughly inscribed Hebrew funerary epitaph in Bari, Italy, for an otherwise unknown Elijah ben Moses, from Puglia. His name is on one side (right) and on the reverse (left) he is called “s…
Tombstone Inscription (Baalbek, Lebanon)
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…
Latin-Hebrew Receipt (England)
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…
Acknowledgment of Debt (Lincoln or London)
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…