Legato Bichi-Borghesi, item nr. 203

has title: Legato Bichi-Borghesi, item nr. 203
has type: manumission contracts; pacts; donation contracts; service agreement contracts
has date of enactment: October 20, 1495
has description: The slaveholder and knight named Antonio Bico, who is the commissioner of Montepulciano, manumits an enslaved woman from the Canary Islands named Caterina de Salè, whom he had purchased from Girolamo Spinola about six years previously, upon which Caterina immediately enters into marriage with the formerly enslaved man named Cola Gobita. Antonio donates 52 to Caterina, which the contract notes was her purchase price. The newly married Caterina and Cola promise to serve Antonio and his family for a term of 15 years as a condition of the manumission and donation.
is part of archival item: Legato Bichi-Borghesi
has named manumitter: Antonio Bicchi
has named receiver of manumission: Caterina de Salè
has condition of manumission: future service
has recipient of future service: Antonio Bicchi
has term of future service: 15 years
has reference to additional person: Cola Gobita; Girolamo Spinola
has place of enactment: The Comunal Palace of Montepulciano
has named witness: Domenico di Cristoforo; Agostino Poppi; Leonoro di ser Cristoforo
has rights holder: Archivio di stato di Siena

Item sets: Manumission of enslaved men and women; Additional documents related to enslaved persons