The slaveholder named Franca Lomellini, the widow of Riccardo Spinola, obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Cattaneo Grimaldi for an enslaved Circassian woman named Margarita, who is approximately 25 years of age and about six months pregnant, for the coverage of 150 Genoese lire. The coverage has a term of five months. Franca is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder and monk named Giovanni de Guisulfis obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Cattaneo Grimaldi for an enslaved Russian woman named Lucia, who is approximately 36 years of age and about nine months pregnant, for the coverage of 100 Genoese lire. The coverage has a term of three months. Giovanni is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder named Francesco Ardimento purchases insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriters Antonio de Franchi and Lodisio Negrone for an enslaved Tatar woman named Marta, who is approximately 24 years of age and about six months pregnant, for 150 Genoese lire (75 lire each). The term of the insurance is five months. Francesco is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder from the commune of Voltri named Pietro Grillo sells an enslaved Circassian man named Giacobino, who is approximately 38 years of age, to a cooper named Gabriele de Corvaria, for the amount of 95 Genoese lire.
The slaveholder named Andreolo Doria sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Maria, who is approximately 25 years old, to a merchant from Varazze named Andrea Delfino, for the amount of 170 Genoese lire. The enslaved Maria had been transferred to Andreolo several months earlier, on 15 April 1453, and this contract represents the ratification of the sale.
The slaveholder named Benedetto Corso obtains insurance the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Cattaneo Grimaldi for an enslaved Tatar woman named Cristiana, who is approximately 35 years of age and about eight months pregnant, for the coverage of 150 Genoese lire. The coverage has a term of three months.
The slaveholder named Andrea Gentile obtains insurance the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriters Baldassare Lomellini and Lodisio Negrone for an enslaved Abkhazan woman named Cita, who is approximately 35 years of age and about eight months pregnant, for the coverage of 150 Genoese lire (75 lire each). The term of coverage is three months. Andrea is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
This contract is a declaration by the formerly enslaved woman named Maria regarding the dowry in her marriage to the formerly enslaved Giorgio Lomellini. Maria declares that Maria entered the marriage with a dowry of 100 Genoese lire and not the 300 lire specified in the marriage contract. Her spouse Giorgio supports the declaration that only 100 Genoese lire was supplied as the dowry. The contract also notes that Maria has no biological relatives, which supports her earlier status as an enslaved person, and that Giorgio had brought an additional 100 lire into the marriage as a marriage gift (antefactum).
