The slaveholder, merchant, and citizen of Florence named Bartolo Sonaglini manumits an enslaved woman named Grazia and all her present and future descendants. He also renounces the right of patronage. Grazia is absent during the manumission and is represented by the enacting notary Antonio di ser Chelli.
The slaveholder and nun of the monastery of San Domenico in Pisa named Maria de Caveggia, who was formerly resident in Genoa, manumits an enslaved Circassian woman named Agnese. Maria renounces the right of patronage.
The slaveholder and notary named Cristoforo de Rapallo manumits an enslaved baptized Muslim woman named Caterina, who is approximately 30 years of age.
The slaveholder and brothers named Enrico and Luca Pinelli manumit an enslaved Ruthenian woman named Maria, who is approximately 32 years of age. The enslaved Maria agrees to serve Enrico and his family for the next 12 years as a condition and compensation for manumission. The brothers retain the right of patronage. Maria was absent during the transaction and was represented by the enacting notary Simone Canella. The contract was extracted.
The slaveholder named Angelo Pinelli frees an enslaved Russian woman Lucia, who is approximately 42 years of age. Angelo retains the right of patronage.
The slaveholder named Maffeo Lecavella manumits an enslaved Tatar woman named Lucia. The formerly enslaved Lucia is present during the manumission and is represented by the enacting notary Niccolò Donati. Maffeo explicitly renounces the right of patronage. The contract also notes that if Lucia dies intestate and without children, then Maffeo will inherit her property.
The slaveholders and widow named Ursola, along with Francesco Gerardi, manumit an enslaved Tunisian man named Ali, who is approximately 25 years of age, who is described as having an olive complexion. Ali is a baptized Muslim who has taken the Christian name Giovanni Battista and whose manumission had been mandated by the testament of the deceased spouse of Ursola, the potter named Sano di Giovanni Borghesi. The formerly enslaved Ali later requested an authenticated copy because the original had been worn and damaged.
The formerly enslaved Giovanni Battista requests an authorized transcript of his manumission contract, enacted approximately 30 years previously, on account that is is worn by time and suffers from damage due to moisture.
The slaveholder named Marco Usodimare frees an enslaved Jewish woman from Tunisia named Cita. The Jewish man named Josef de Domo David arranges a payment 122 Genoese scudi to secure her freedom, which he has collected from a number of individuals. The ransom was composed as follows: 26 gold scudi paid by a bill of exchange sent from Rome by Francesco Lomellini in Rome to the Andrea Doria; 60 gold scudi paid by Rabbi Abram Salsat (who is from the Amhara Region of Ethiopia) in Naples to Raffaele Usodimare, who acts of behalf of Marco; and 38 gold scudi to be paid by Mordechai de Tunixia, the father of Cita, to Marco within four months of the date of the contract. The contract states that if Cita has converted to Christianity before being freed then the contract is void.
The testator and slaveholder named Alterisia Cattaneo names her son Evangelista de Marini as her executor. Evangelista is also named as an heir along with his siblings Taddeo and Lucrezia de Marini. The testament mandates that two enslaved women held by Alterisia named Maddalena and Maria be manumitted.
The slaveholder named Dionisio Rissotto manumits an enslaved Ruthenian woman named Maria, who is approximately 28 years of age, with Dionisio retaining the right of patronage. Maria is present and represented in the manumission by the enacting notary Teramo de Castelaccio.
The slaveholder and merchant named Percivale Ardissone leases out a formerly enslaved woman from Cyprus named Agnese to a cloth merchant named Guglielmo Assereto, for a term of 10 years and total payment of 75 Genoese lire. The enslaved Agnese had already been manumitted subject to a service obligation of thirteen years to Percivale. The term of conditional manumission continues for the remaining ten years of service to Guglielmo.
The slaveholder named Gherardo Vivaldi leases out an enslaved Ruthenian child named Brigida, who is approximately 16 years of age, to a certain Gregorio Stella, for a term of five years. The enslaved Brigida was immediately manumitted on the condition that she serve the term of service for Gregorio.
The slaveholder and furrier named Antonio Carena manumits an enslaved Bulgarian child named Gregorio, who is approximately 17 years of age, after he finishes a four-year term of service to Giacomo Salvago, for which Antonio is paid the sum of 22 ducats and 5 zigliati in currency of Chios.
The slaveholder from Ancona named Giovanni de Landinis manumits an enslaved Tatar man named Giacobino, who is approximately 26 years of age. A certain Marcone Torriglione from Ancona pays the sum of 25 Venetian ducats to ensure the manumission.
The slaveholder named Pomellina Adorno manumits an enslaved Ruthenian man named Giacobino, who is approximately 22 years of age, under the condition that he work as a servant for Luca Pinelli for a term of four years. Pomellina received the sum of 22 ducats of Chios from Luca for the service agreement.
The slaveholder named Gherardo de Carretto manumits an enslaved Ruthenian woman named Lucia, who is approximately 32 years of age, under the condition that she continues to work as his servant until his death.
The slaveholder named Gherardo de Carretto manumits an enslaved Ruthenian child named Giacobino , who is approximately 17 years of age, under the condition that he continues to work as his servant until his death.
The slaveholder named Giovanni Bartolomeo de Podio manumits an enslaved man from the region of the Geta named Aspertino, who is approximately 24 years of age.
The slaveholder and sugar master named Antonio de Cairo manumits an an enslaved Greek woman from Constantinople named Anna, whom he had just purchased on the same day. The third party named Lorenzo Gatto paid the sum of 30 ducats for the manumission.
The slaveholder named Pietro Giustiniani manumits an enslaved Hungarian woman named Sofia, who is approximately 32 years of age, under the condition that she serves his son-in-law Raffaele Giustiniani for a term of nine years starting from 1 January 1455.
