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Giovanni Battista Parisola, filza 6, series I, nr. 126

Item

has title
Giovanni Battista Parisola, filza 6, series I, nr. 126
has contract title
Promissio
has date of enactment
19 May 1486
has description
The merchant named Niccolò Piccaluga, from the town of Sampierdarena, promises to pay the slaveholder named Andrea de Monelia the sum 25 Genoese ducats to secure the liberation of a formerly enslaved Greek woman named Elena, from Negroponte. Elena had been declared free by while in the city of Chios by Girolamo de Camulio, the bishop of Chios, after agreeing to the ransom of 25 ducats. To secure the payment Elena agrees to work as a servant in the household of Niccolò for a term of five years.
is part of archival item
Notai antichi 956
has named issuer
Niccolò Piccaluga
has named reciver of promise
Andrea de Monelia
has named object of promise
Elena
has additional named participant
Girolamo de Camulio
has reference to place
Chios, Genoese castle and wallsChios
has named witness
Ambrogio Costa
Giacomo Verdura
has rights holder
Archivio di stato di Genova