Note ebraiche su pergamene napoletane del XIII secolo

On the verso of two private deeds from the San Gregorio Armeno monastery in Naples, concerning the activities of some local Jews in the 13th century, a few lines in Hebrew have been discovered, never noticed up to this day despite the fact that the documents have been studied several times before (see Sefer yuhasin 1: 51-66). In the first document, dated February 2nd, 1235, the Jew Geschoda, known as Ganga, son of Ganio and Trocta, renews a deed drafted in 1211 between the brothers David and Daniel Eliseo, dealing with property rights on a house in Piazza Portanova in Naples. On the document it can tentatively be read: «Act which was done by David to Daniel his brother from the sale of his part (?) of [the] house»). The second deed, dated March 23th, 1243, is a chartula de pignu in which the christian Sergio Guindazzo transfers to the Jewish physician Ya‘aqov son of Bonaventura the income from two plots of land for one year, to satisfy a debt of 12 ounces of gold. On the verso of the parchment, barely readable, we found: «This is the charge deed of Sergius (?) Guindazzo»).