Parnatissa tu Carteru: Crete, 1379

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Title

Parnatissa tu Carteru: Crete, 1379

Subject

Parnatissa tu Carteru

Description

Parnatissa seems to be a widow. She had two daughters, Cali (widow of a man named Sabatheus, and mother to a daughter named Anastassu) and Parmya (married to Samerya de Rodo, i.e. from Rhodes, and mother to a girl named Cali?).

Parnatissa names her son-in-law, Samerya de Rodo, as her executor. She leaves bequests to female family members, including 5 to "Cali tu Samerya," everything in her house to her granddaughter Anastassu, 15 hyperpera to her daughter Cali. Each of these gifts is labeled as being "pro anima mea."

She also leaves 4 measures of oil to her synagogue, "pro anima mea."

Creator

Candia, Crete

Date

11 March 1379

Source

Archivio di Stato, Venice
Notai di Candia, b. 295, fasc. 10, fols. 9v-10r (not. Hemanuel Focha)
McKee, Wills, no. 705

Language

Latin

Coverage

Eastern Mediterranean
Italy
Venetian Empire

Contributor

Rena Lauer