The slaveholder named Antonio de Varcio manumits an enslaved man named Asano who is approximately 38 years of age. The enslaved Asano agrees to pay 30 Genoese lire to Antonio as a condition of the manumission. Antonio retains the right of patronage.
Martino Cattaneo was a Genoese merchant active during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century. He entered into the Cattaneo albergo in 1429 and assumed their surname afterwards.
The slaveholders named Antonio Bonaventura and Sorleone Lomellini purchase insurance against the risk of death from the underwriter Antonio de Carretto for an enslaved woman named Maddalena, who is approximately 18 years of age, for 150 Genoese lire. The term is four months from the date of the contract. The contract also mentions an ongoing dispute between Antonio Bonaventura and Sorleone Lomellini before the Officium mercantie over the legal title to the enslaved Maddalena. The slaveholders are not present during the enactment and are represented by the enacting notary Branca Bagnara.
A certain Adamo, whose surname is not indicated in the copy of the transcript, promises to pay the statuatory penalty of 25 Genoese lire to the slaveholder named Antonio Vivaldi for having impregnated an enslaved woman whose title he held. Adamo also agrees to pay an additional 5 Genose lire to cover the expenses of childbirth.
The archival item is a register of 224 folios containing contracts enacted by Cristoforo de Revellino, Filippo Noitolano, Giovanni de Bozzolo, Domenico Panizario, Riccobono de Bozzolo, and Niccolò de Porta from 20 March 1341 to 18 November 1398.
A person described as a lector is someone who works as a reader, usually a person in a minor order who was responsible for reading aloud from the scriptures during worship.
The formerly enslaved Bulgarian woman named Caterina, who had just been manumitted by the slaveholder Linò Cattaneo, promises to serve Linò and her daughter Speciosa Cicala for the remainder of their lifetimes.
The slaveholders and brothers named Isnardo and Girolamo Cattaneo manumit an enslaved Circassian woman named Elena, who is approximately 36 years of age. The brothers retain the right of patronage.
