Bartolomeo de Franchi was a Genoese merchant active in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was born as Bartolomeo de Sachis and assumed the surname de Franchi when he entered into their albergo in 1393.
This archival item contains contracts enacted by Battista de Bonavei. There are two series in this filza. The first series contains 232 contracts enacted from 24 April 1482 to 25 February 1484. The second series contains 240 contracts enacted from 14 March 1472 to 2 June 1494.
The town of Asilah in modern-day Morocco was administered in the late medieval and early modern period by the Umayyad Caliphate until 1471, when it was conquered by Portugal.
The slaveholder from Portugal named Joham de Sponos sells an enslaved baptized Muslim child named Isabella, a captive from Tangier who is approximately 15 years of age, to an apothechary named Battista Sofia, for 55 Genoese ducats.
