2 20 30 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 Richa, widow of Maier di Salamone di Leon d'Oro: Trieste, 1478 Subject The topic of the resource Richa, widow of Maier di Salamone di Leon d'Oro Description An account of the resource The widow Richa was a member of the Ashkenazic community of northern Italy. Her Latin will names her second son, Mose, as her universal heir, even though her other son, David, had been named universal heir in an earlier, Hebrew, document. David received a fund of money that his mother had previously invested in a bank on Istria. Miriam Davide notes that this will sparked great discord between the brothers, and it led to a drawn-out legal battle. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Trieste, Italy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18 September 1478 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio Diplomatico di Trieste Vicedomini, XXXIX, cc. 178r-v. See Davide, "Testamenti di donne ebree...," 441-2. 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 dispute 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 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 Pasqua, widow of Isacco: Trieste, 1474 Subject The topic of the resource Pasqua, widow of Isacco, daughter of Salomone Description An account of the resource The widow Pasqua was a member of the Ashkenazic community of northern Italy. She was also a moneylender in the town of Trieste. Her will leaves a major part of her considerable wealth to her daughter Richa, though also gives bequests to her two sons, Benedetto and Michele Sicla. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Trieste, Italy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2 October 1474 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio Diplomatico di Trieste Testamenti, 1, f. 149 See Davide, "Testamenti di donne ebree...," 440. 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 moneylender 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 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 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 Reina, widow of Bonjua Cap: Valls, 1338 Subject The topic of the resource Reina, widow of Bonjua Cap Description An account of the resource The widow Reina distributed 2,720 sous in her will. She gave 500 sous to marry off poor Jewish girls, and orders money to be invested to finance a Torah for the synagogue. She leaves money to family and friends, most notably 1000 sous to a female relative on her husband's side. Three Jews witness this will. (See description in Burns, Jews in the Notarial Culture, 110-111.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Valls, Spain Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1338 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Arxiu Històric Arxidiocesà de Tarragona, Spain AWAITING ARCHIVAL CITATION See Burns, Jews in the Notarial Culture, 110-113. Transcribed in Gabriel Secall i Güell, Els jueus de Valls i la seva época (Valls: Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, 1980), pp. 202-203. Also see pp. 188-191. 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 Spain Iberia Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer charity synagogue Torah widow witness 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 Archondisa, widow of Helia Catellanus: Crete, 1358 Subject The topic of the resource Archondisa, widow of Helia Catellanus, daughter of the late Calo Description An account of the resource Archondisa, a widow, names as her executor her "beloved brother" Sambatheus (Shabbetai in Hebrew). She leaves to her brother-executor a home in the Jewish quarter of Candia (currently where a man named Samargias Cumani lives). Three years after Archondisa's death, the house should become the property of her grandson Ligia, with a condition: Ligia only gets the house if he marries his first cousin Eudochia, the daughter of the executor Sambatheus. If Ligia does not want to marry Eudochia, he will not get the house. (Ostensibly it stays in the hands of Sambatheus.) If Ligia dies before reaching the age of marriage, on the other hand, she leaves the house to her paternal relatives ("meos propinquires paternos"). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Candia, Crete Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3 December 1358 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio di Stato, Venice Notai di Candia, b. 295, fasc. 8, fol. 2r (not. Michele De Ceca) McKee, Wills, no. 648 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 Venetian Empire Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer conditions real estate 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 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 Herini, widow of Sambathus Chasuri: Crete, 1348 Subject The topic of the resource Herini, widow of Sambathus Chasuri Description An account of the resource Herini names her brothers, who live in the town of Chania, as her executors. She leaves her goods to her minor son, Sambathus (sharing her late husband's name). If he were to die while a minor, her sister Eudochia would become her heir. If Eudochia were to die before she married, Herini orders her estate be divided equally among all of her brothers and sisters. She does not explicitly mention a dowry. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Candia, Crete Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11 March 1348 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivio di Stato, Venice Notai di Candia, b. 295, fasc. 7, fol. 1r (not. Pietro Longo) McKee, Wills, no. 638 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 Venetian Empire Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer 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 Geniza Dispositive Documents 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 Widow of Yefet b. Sabagh: Fustat, c. 1126 Language A language of the resource Judeo-Arabic Formulae in Aramaic Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Geniza Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fustat, Egypt Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Elkan Nathan Adler Collection, Jewish Theological Seminary Library ENA NS 16, fol. 11 (Original Will) Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, University of Cambridge T-S 16.44 1.35 and T-S 12.613 (join) Princeton Geniza Project: https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2419/ https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3188/ Weiss, Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk…, 129; Goitein, "Dispositions," 160. Subject The topic of the resource Widow of Yefet b. Sabagh Description An account of the resource This widow, whose name remains unknown, appears in at least two dispositive documents, constituting three shelf-marks. That is to say, she testated an original will, which is in one piece. A revision exists as two fragments that have been re-joined by scholars. The original will was made at some point after 1100 CE, likely in 1126 (see below, next paragraph). It functions mostly as a corrective to a gift she had previously given. That is to say, she had given half of her house and the rest of her goods to a maidservant (apparently a freed woman named Nashu). And then, on her deathbed, she asks the maidservant to give an eighth of the house (i.e. a quarter of what she had received) to the widow's niece (her sister's daughter), named Najiyya. Two days before she dies, on 11 Iyyar 1126 CE, the widow revises the will again. In this codicil, Najiyya is promised the abovementioned part of the house, but only under the condition that Najiyya and her husband give up claims to any of the widow's other goods. A few other clauses appear here too, including a manumission. DESCRIPTION (OF THE ORIGINAL WILL ) FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT: Deathbed declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, right upper corner. An old widow who had given her maidservant half of a house and the rest of her belongings asks her to renounce one eight of the share in the house, which she wishes to give to her sister's daughter, Najiya. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 134, 442) (<a href="https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2419/">https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2419/</a>) See above link for IMAGE and TRANSCRIPTION. DESCRIPTION (OF THE REVISION) FROM THE PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT: This document consists of two fragments; the right side is document T-S 16.44 and the left side is document T-S 12.613, the break between the two documents is indicated in the transcription by /. Change of a will, signed by Ḥalfon b. Ghalib and Yefet b. Efrayim two days before the death of the testator, saying that Najiya receives part of a house from the dying sister of her mother on condition that she and her husband renounce all other claims on the estate. Another woman receives another part, and a man promises to marry her and never divorce her. Dated 1126. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Alternate description: Part of a document regarding the changing of a will two days before the testator’s death, dated 11 Iyyar 1126 CE and in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Najiyya is to receive part of a house from her dying maternal aunt on condition that she and her husband Abū Naṣr Mevasser ha-Levi renounce all other claims on the estate. A freed woman (Našū) will receive another part of the house. Yefet b. Ḥadīd is also released by the dying woman. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Ḡālib the cantor and Yefet b. Ephraim. (Information from CUDL.) (See <a href="https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3188/">https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3188/)</a> See above link for IMAGE and TRANSCRIPTION Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1126 April 1126 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Princeton Geniza Project Rachel Richman image real estate servants transcription 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 Fiore, widow of Solomon di Cori: Rome, 1557 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 25 January 1557 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 ASC, F.12, l.1, f.71r. 1557-01-25 See Kenneth Stow, The Jews in Rome II (Leiden: Brill, 1997), no. 2004. Subject The topic of the resource Fiore, widow of Solomon di Cori Description An account of the resource The dying widow Fiore leaves her meager possessions to the girl who cared for her, and whose father's house Fiore is currently in. The will is recorded by a Jewish notary, either Leone (father) or Isach (son) Piattelli, in Hebrew. DETAILED DESCRIPTION FROM KENNETH STOW: In the house of Isach Havli, Fiore, widow of q.m Salomone di Cori is dying. She leaves her mattress, bedstead, and the few tattered clothes she has to the girl Allegrezza, daughter of Isach Havli, in return for the services the girl has rendered her. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kenneth Stow bed clothing material culture 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Anastasu, widow of Solomon Astru: Crete, 1426 Subject The topic of the resource Anastasu, widow of Solomon Astru Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived ASV Notai di Candia, b. 115, fol. 10r Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18 December 1426 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Lauer 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 Crete Venetian Empire Eastern Mediterranean Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Candia, Crete image widow