Browse Items (234 total)

Rosa was from Maenza (in Lazio), but testated in Sermoneta (also in Lazio).

Among her bequests, she left funds for lamps in the synagogues of Marittima and Rome.

Tags: ,

Gratia testates while pregnant, and her will follows immediately on the heels of a document in which her father "emancipates" her. The child with whom Gratia is currently pregnant is named her universal heir. It seems that, should the child not…

Tags: , ,

The widow Gaudiosa, sick in bed (as the boilerplate from Sicily has it), names her two sons Xibitella and Busacca as her universal heirs. She bequeaths clothing and textiles to her grandson Merdocay.

She also leaves a bed and its extensive…

Tags: , , , ,

Disiata names as her universal heirs her brother Xibitello de Galiono and her nephew Busacca, the son of Siminto de Galiono (another brother). She leaves other bequests to her neice Rachila, her daughter Gaudiosa, and her sister Stella. She also…

Tags: , , , , ,

Bullara, a widow, records her will when she is sick.

She names her grandson Sadiolus Sieli her universal heir. She leaves bed-related goods to her granddaughter Luna. She also leaves other female loved ones clothing and textile goods.

Bullara…

Tags: , , , , , ,

The widow Channuna, like most Jewish women represented in this collection, testated while sick. As the common boilerplate from Sicily has it, she testated while lying in bed.

Channuna leaves her grandson Magalufus the house in which he is living,…

Tags: , , , , ,

Rachila names as her universal heir her daughter Bullara, the wife of Sabuto de Sagictono. She also leaves bequests to her granddaughters Sutayla and Perna (daughters of her late son Muxa de Chalifi), and to her grandson Sadia (son of her late…

Ricca leaves bequests to the synagogues of Sciacca, Trapani, and Caltabellotta. As is typical in these Sicilian sources, the synagogue is called a "miskita" (i.e. mosque). She also leaves money to marry off Jewish orphan girls, along with bequests to…

Tags: , , , , ,

01.JPG
New Christian (conversa) testator. Although she testated in Galicia, Spain, she owned one of the houses in the old Jewish quarter of Porto, Portugal, that later remained in the hands of New Christians families. It is the set of 30 houses surrounding…

Tags: , , ,

TRANSCRIPTION:אנחנו חתומי מטה נכנסנו בבית היקרה רחל אלמנת ה"ר [=הרב ר'] משה וכך אמרההוו עלי עדים וקנו ממני קנין גמור אגב סודר איך נתתי במתנה גמורה מעתה ומעכשו שרירא וקיימא דלא למיהדר מינה לעולם כל נכסי מטלטלי'[ם] כסף וזהב ושאר נכסים ומעות ששוה הכל…

Tags:

Ster's will suggests that she was very poor.

Tags:

An (unnamed?) woman makes a will and leaves to her husband only "quello che da raggion per sua eredità glie proviene". That is to say, she only leaves him what is rightfully his by reason of inheritance laws. The rest of her goods she leaves to her…

Stella di Spoleto is married, but does not seem to have children. She dictates her will to the Jewish rabbi/notary Grandilio di Porto, who records it in Italian. In the will, she leaves 1 scudo to the confraternity known as the Compagnia of Ghemilut…

Tags: ,

Laura dictated her will to the Jewish rabbi/notary Salamone di Santoro da Pitigliano, and he recorded it in Italian. Detailed Description from Kenneth Stow: Laura di q.m Moise Abbina, widow of q.m Elia di Perugia, alias di Pinto, writes her will and…

Tags: , , , , ,

Grazia dictated her will to the Jewish rabbi/notary Simone de Castelnuovo, who recorded it in Italian. At the time of her will dictation, Grazia was married but had no children. The vast majority of her few goods she left to the Compagnia di Ghemilut…

Tags: , , , ,

Allegrezze dictated her will to Simone de Castelnuovo, a Jewish rabbi/notary, who recorded the will in Italian.

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION:

... per provedere ale cose e ocasione come conviene fare ali personi da bene e tementi de Dio et spressio…

Tags:

This is not the original will of Palomba. Instead, Palomba here has the Jewish rabbi/notary Pompeo del Borgo annul a specific request in her previously written will. The original will left 25 scudi, the value of the cazacà of her room, to charity ("a…

Tags: ,

Saporita writes her will in the presence of her husband and their four sons. The Jewish rabbi/notary Pompeo del Borgo records the will in Italian. One of the four sons, named Manuele, is disabled. Saporita leaves her dowry equally among her other…

Tags: , ,

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2