1 20 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Latinate Wills Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anastasu, wife of Iaco: Crete, 1336 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10 December 1336 Language A language of the resource Latin Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Eastern Mediterranean Italy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Candia, Crete Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio di Stato, Venice ASV Notai di Candia, b. 295, fol. 52v (not. Giovanni Gerardo) McKee, Wills, no. 227 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer Subject The topic of the resource Anastasu says that she is healthy in mind and body when she testates. She names her dear husband Iaco ("virum meum dilectum") as her executor. She leaves her son, Tobia, half of her dowry, and the other half of dowry should go to "the sons and daughters of my brother who now reside in Alexandria." Anastasu recalls that she was named executor of her grandfather Zacha's estate. She next leaves very large amounts of money to her son Tobia -- 1500 hyperpera. And to her daughters Pothyti, Parnatissa, and Vlimidhena, she leaves another 1500 hyperpera, to be divided equally between the three. To her other two sons, Zacha and Perna, who are still minors, she leaves 500 hyperpera a piece, when they reach their majority, 18 years old. She spends some lines of the will organizing the estate of her grandfather, assigning a good amount of the goods and labor to Tobia and others. The daughters Parnatissa and Vlimida (aka Vlimidhena) receive the house that had belonged to Anastasu's grandmother (named Vlimidhena), which she had given to Anastasu. A strange line in the will -- the very last line before the boilerplate begins -- says that Anastasu's "daughter and son and my executor" should be able to compel her husband (who is, indeed, also the executor) to present and unseal all of the accounts and documents ("omnes et singulas raciones et scripturas") relating to her. [Note: This is not a complete summary of the will.] Alexandria dowry healthy wealth