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Giovanni Scriba
Giovanni Scriba was a Genoese notary of the twelfth century whose surviving register, covering the years 1154 to 1164, is the oldest notarial cartulary in Europe. Its more than a thousand contracts record the commenda partnerships, loans, sales and marriage agreements of Genoese merchants trading with Sicily, North Africa, Spain and the Levant, and it is a key source for the medieval commercial revolution.
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