RT Article
T1 The Postmortem Inventory of Astrug Mosse, a Jew of Marseille (1397)
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 111
IS 3
SP 338
OP 346
A1 Smail, Daniel Lord
LA English
PB Penn Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1772107530
AB This brief essay offers a set of remarks on the postmortem inventory of a Jew from the city of Marseille who died in 1397. The inventory, which lists all the assets in the estate, had been compiled by the decedent's daughters and was then presented to the court in order to be registered. Like many inventories from the region, it proceeds room by room, and offers valuable glimpses of Jewish material culture as well as the folk ontology governing the classification of things. The article includes a translation of the inventory, recording strikethrough deletions and interlineations.
K1 postmortem inventory
K1 medieval Europe
K1 Material Culture
K1 Lists
K1 Jewish-Christian relations
K1 Folk ontology
DO 10.1353/jqr.2021.0031