1 20 4 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 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 Ster, wife of Astrug Crescas: Salon-de-Provence, 1419 Subject The topic of the resource Ster, wife of Astrug Crescas of Bésaudun Description An account of the resource Ster's will suggests that she was very poor. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Salon-de-Provence, France Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 20 September 1419 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône 375 E 39 f. 32v Wernham, La communauté juive de Salon-de-Provence, 55. 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 France Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer poverty 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 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 Usellina, daughter of Benedesti di Verona: Cividale, 1567 Subject The topic of the resource Usellina, daughter of Benedisti di Verona, widow of Abramo di Conegliano Description An account of the resource The widow Usellina was a member of the Ashkenazic community of northern Italy. Her will contains significant concern for her burial, including specifics on where she should be buried and instructions that a plaque that should be placed on her monument. The will also left bequests of clothing for the two children of her late daughter Giustina -- a granddaughter named Anna and a grandson named Abramo. Miriam Davide stresses the poverty of Usellina and sees this as part of a wider trend in the social reality of Cividale's Jews in this period. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cividale, Italy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 17 August 1567 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio di Stato, Udine Notarile Antico, b. 788, cc. 196v-197v. See Davide, "Testamenti di donne ebree...," 437. 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 Italy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer poverty widow 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 Hebrew Notarial 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 Perna, widow of the late Rabbi Giuseppe ha-Rofeh di Cave: Rome, 1538 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2 February 1538 Language A language of the resource Hebrew Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Italy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rome, Italy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio Storico Capitolino, Rome See Kenneth Stow, The Jews in Rome I (Leiden: Brill, 1995), no. 257. Subject The topic of the resource Perna, widow of the late Rabbi Giuseppe ha-Rofeh di Cave Description An account of the resource Perna testates before a Hebrew notary in Rome. Her will focuses on her lack of assets -- she claims to be destitute. She lives in the house of her nephew Gabriele, who took care of all her needs. She explains that she is testating to protect Gabriele from her other nephews, expecting that those other nephews will harrass Gabriele in an attempt to extract some of Perna's assets from him. The only thing she has is the clothing on her back, and that she leaves to Gabriele. family feud poverty widow 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 Anastassia, wife of Judah Balbo: Crete, 1334 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 24 June 1334 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. 6r (not Antonio Rudolfo) McKee, Wills, no. 463 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer Subject The topic of the resource Anastassia, wife of Judah Balbo Description An account of the resource Anastassia is the wife of Judah (Iecudha) Balbo, a spicer (speciarius) in Candia. She names as her executors her husband as well as her brother Sambatheus Balbo. It seems that she married a relative. She testates while sick, and names her husband Iecudha and her brother Sambatheus as her executors. She makes it known that her dowry was 270 hyperpera, which she divides between her "dear son" Ysagia and her daughters, Tardina and Cigiona, equally. She leaves to her husband the 100 hyperpera of her virginity money (which was "according to the customs of the Jews"). But if he remarries, that money should get divided among her children instead. Moreover, if he does remarry, all of the money that is left to the children should be given to them immediately upon coming of age. If he does not remarry, however, all of the money that goes to the children should remain in her husband's hands until his death, and only then should the money go to her children. Another 50 hyperpera that was given to her by her husband should be given by her husband to poor Jewish women's dowries "pro anima mea." She adds a condition that tries to circumvent Judah should he not want to do this. Judah seems to owe Anastassia's mother Eudhochia a debt, and Anastassia adds a clause to her will that, if Judah engages with Eudhochia about this "in iudicio vel extra iudicium" then her mother should immediately be able to get 200 hyperpera from Anastassia's dowry. charity conditions dowry poverty