The slaveholder and merchant named Niccolò Granello, an inhabitant of the commune of Bonifacio, sells an enslaved Russian child named Lucia, who is approximately 17 years of age, to a certain Giorgio de Bargalio, for 190 Genoese lire.
The slaveholder and physician named Antonio de Novis leases out an enslaved Greek woman named Margarita, who is approximately 18 years of age, to a nobleman named Soldano Cattaneo, for a term of 12 years and total payment of 100 Genoese lire. The enslaved Margarita is to be manumitted at the end of the term of service. Margarita is also absent during the transaction and represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder named Raffaele de Monterubeo manumits an enslaved Russian woman named Caterina, who is approximately 40 years of age. Caterina agrees to serve in the household of Raffaele for the next three years without pay. Raffaele maintains the right of patronage.
The slaveholder named Caracosa, the widow of the deceased Cosmo Malocello, obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Gaspare Spinola for an enslaved Russian woman named Marta, whose is approximately 33 years of age and about nine months pregnant, for the coverage of 150 Genoese lire. The contract has a term of three months. Caracosa is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The merchant named Francesco Giumello promises to pay the sum of 3 Genoese lire to the baker and slaveholder named Gregorio de Camuliano so that he can obtain insurance against the risk of death from childbirth for an enslaved Bosnian woman named Caterina, whose is approximately 21 years of age and about five months pregnant. Frencesco is absent during the transaction and is represented by the payee Gregorio de Camuliano.
The slaveholder and merchant named Juan Ferrandes de Ermendua, from the commune of Bermeo in the region of Biscay, sells an enslaved woman named Elena, who is approximately 26 years of age, to a Genoese merchant and citizen named Niccolò de Ancona for 130 Genoese lire. Juan had purchased the enslaved Elena earlier in the same year from the merchant Galeotto Centurione and had recorded the transaction in a private account book.
The slaveholders and brothers named Leoterio and Giacomo Picio manumit an enslaved Ruthenian woman named Maria, who is approximately 38 years of age. They had received the enslaved Maria from their mother Argenta as named heirs in her testament. Maria agrees to pay the sum of 40 Genoese lire for the manumission, 10 lire of which were loaned to Maria by a certain Bartolomeo Salvago. Leoterio was not present during the manumission and was represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino. Giacomo retains the right of patronage. The contract was extracted.
The slaveholder named Giuliano Ittaliano obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Gaspare Spinola for an enslaved Circassian woman named Agnese, who is approximately 28 years of age and about seven months pregnant, for the coverage of 187 lire and 10 soldi of Genoese currency. The contract has a term of four months. Giuliano is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder and draper named Girolamo Calvo leases out an enslaved Russian woman named Caterina, who is approximately 18 years of age, to the merchant named Paolo de Promontorio, for a term of 2 years and total payment of 25 Genoese lire. The contract mentions that remuneration would be based on an earlier agreements between the two principal contractors. The contract also specifies that Caterina will be leased with her own clothes, money, and other goods. Furthermore, the contract states that Caterina cannot be subleased during the contract without the express permission of Girolamo under the penalty of 40 Genoese Florins.
The slaveholder and inhabitant of Bonifacio named Niccolò Granello manumits an enslaved Circassian woman named Lucia, who is approximately 18 years of age. Lucia agrees to remain in servitude to Niccolò for the next nine years without salary. Niccolò retains the right of patronage. The contract was extracted.
The noblemen and slaveholders named Luciano, Marco and Ambrogio Lomellini give an enslaved boy named Venturino, who is approximately eight years of age and born of two enslaved persons held by their late brother Cristoforo Lomellini, named Elena and Giorgio, to the barrel maker from Albenga named Lazaro Valerio, who promises to raise Venturino as his own son. Ambrogio also serves as the procurator for his brother Napoleone, who is not present at the enactment of the contract, and with the consent of Francisca Grillo, the wife of Napoleone as denoted in an earlier contract enacted in 1457 by the notary Gherardo de Brevei.
The slaveholder named Giovanni Ferretto, from the commune of Montanegli, sells an enslaved Tatar man named Giorgio, who is approximately 18 years of age, to the merchant named Girolamo de Sale, for 120 lire, 14 soldi, and 8 denarii of Genoese currency.
The slaveholder named Pellegrina Cattaneo obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Demetrio Fieschi for an enslaved Russian woman named Nestasia, who is approximately 27 years of age and about eight months pregnant, for the coverage of 150 Genoese lire. The contract has a term of three months.
Three slaveholders and merchants from the commune of Voltri named Pietro Aragno, Pellegro Bozano, and Antonio de Garexio sell an enslaved Turkish man named Venturino, who is approximately 50 years of age, to a Castilian merchant named Martín de Albulis, from the commune of Bermeo, for 50 Genoese ducats.
The slaveholder and cutler named Tommaso Merello leases out an enslaved Bulgarian woman named Maria, who is approximately 25 years of age, to the tinsmith named Alegrino Gatto, for a term of 6 years and total payment of 50 Genoese lire. The contract states that the enslaved Maria cannot be subleased to anyone living outside the walls of Genoa.
The slaveholder named Giacomo Riccio sells the enslaved Circassian woman named Caterina, who is approximately 30 years of age, to the notary named Giovanni de Caneto, for 160 Genoese lire.
The mariner from Baiona (in Galicia) named Pedro Domínguez assigns power of attorney to Tommaso de Casale and his wife Marta. The contract was extracted.
The slaveholder and money-changer named Niccolò de Marco sells an enslaved Tatar man named Valentino, who is approximately 20 years of age, to a merchant from Tortosa named Francino Pedrabales, for 120 Genoese lire.
The slaveholder named Giacomo de Puteo obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Paolo Spinola for an enslaved Russian woman named Anna, who is approximately 22 years of age and about six months pregnant, for the coverage of 150 Genoese lire. The contract has a term of five months. Giacomo is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder and merchant named Giovanni de Abbatibus sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Caterina, who is approximately 24 years of age, to a certain Francesco de Ibiza, a merchant from Valencia, for 120 Genoese lire. The payment is made partly in money of account and partly in a quantity of cloth from Milan. The contract was extracted.
An agreement made in Chios, on the date of January 29, 1459, between, on the one hand, the two owners of a ship that had anchored in its port named Maurizio Cattaneo and Tobia Lomellini, and, on the other hand, several Islamic merchants ("infrascripta mauri mercatores et habents raubam et merces in ipsa nave"): nine men from Tripoli, five from Tunis, two from Granada and two from Fez. These itinerant merchants contest the sums demanded for their freight and it is agreed, after a long discussion and the intervention of an expert, that they will have to pay 4.75 ducats of Chios for each bag of linen transported from Alexandria to Chios; for the other products, the freight rate is also reduced.
The slaveholder named Benedetto Torre obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Quirico Cattaneo for an enslaved woman named Caterina, who is approximately 26 years of age and about six months pregnant, for the coverage of 200 Genoese lire. The contract has a term of five months. Benedetto is absent at the enactment and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The slaveholder named Teodoro Spinola obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Baldassare Lomellini for an enslaved Circassian woman named Margarita, who is approximately 28 years of age and about five months pregnant, for the coverage of 170 Genoese lire. The contract has a term of six months. Teodoro is absent at the enactment and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
