How did Genoa and Venice record city-to-city payments, and were they like Templar ones?
Research question: How do surviving Genoese or Venetian notarial registers record cross-location payment instruments, and how do their fees, currencies, and settlement practices compare with any documented Templar arrangement?
The records show that Genoese notarial evidence includes promissory notes issued in 1384 between Genoa and Barcelona, though the letters themselves are lost 1. Valencian promissory notes from 1371 totalled 100 florins for a Huesca merchant 2. Genoese notaries recorded transactions made in their presence, from large sums to amounts of only a few pence 3. The verified facts say nothing about Venetian registers, fee schedules, settlement practices, or any Templar arrangement, so no comparison can be drawn 123. The newest dated fact is the 1384 note, about 642 years old, so the evidence is historical rather than current.
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"There is also evidence of promissory notes being issued in 1384 between Genoa and Barcelona , although the letters themselves are lost."Promissory note
"the ones issued in Valencia in 1371 by Bernat de Codinachs for Manuel d'Entença, a merchant from Huesca (then part of the Crown of Aragon ), amounting a total of 100 florins."Promissory note
"they recorded business transactions, which were all made in a notary's presence, ranging from large transactions involving considerable sums of money to small ones of a few pence"The Life of the Genoese Woolworkers as Revealed in Thirteenth-Century Notarial Records (1942)