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Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series I, nr. 69

Item

has title
Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series I, nr. 69
has contract title
Acordatio famule
has type
service agreement contracts
was enacted by
Tommaso Duracino
has date of enactment
17 February 1455
has description
A woman named Maria de Byach, described as being from the Crimean Peninusla (partium Sclavonie) enters into an agreement with the physician named Battista Bonivento to work as a household servant for ten years. Maria will be paid a salary of 14 Genoese ducats. It is likely the case that Maria, or even her father Giacomo, was once an enslaved individual. The contract also states that Maria was brought to Genoa from the Crimean region by the merchant Antonio de Lancia.
is part of archival item
Notai antichi 889
has named party initiating agreement
Battista Bonivento
has named party accepting agreement
Maria
has salary value
14
has salary currency
ducats of Genoa
has term of service
10 years
has named guarantor
Luca de Prato
Antonio de Lancia
has reference to place
The workshop of the barber Guglielmo de Lancia
has place of enactement
The house inhabited by Battista Bonivento
has named witness
Giuliano de Ventimilia
Gregorio Castagnola
has rights holder
Archivio di stato di Genova
has unique identifier
8da4077b-edad-4939-980f-5c6d0ebb5e15
has note
See partial transcript in Luigi Tria, La schiavitù in Liguria: ricerche e documenti (Genova: Società ligure di storia patria, 1947), doc. LVIII.
Item sets
Additional documents related to enslaved persons
Notarial contracts in the Mediterranean world