No phone to receive verification code
My wife recently passed and sold her iPhone x. I'm trying to access her icloud to download anything I might not already have. How do I do this?
See this article https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201351
It depends what the purchaser has performed the steps on the device , if you are in touch with the buyer contact him and get Apple ID and password to download items from iCloud account in your Mac .