496), Hearing That The Genoese And Other Franks Were In
The Habit Of Carrying Off Tartar Children To Sell, Sent A Force
Against Caffa, Which Was Occupied Without Resistance, The People
Taking Refuge In Their Ships.
The Khan also seized the Genoese
property in Sarai.
(Heyd. II. 27.)
[20] "Stracium et omne capud massariciorum"; in Scotch phrase "napery
and plenishing." A Venetian statute of 1242 prescribes that a bequest
of massariticum shall be held to carry to the legatee all articles
of common family use except those of gold and silver plate or
jeweller's work. (See Ducange, sub voce.) Stracci is still used
technically in Venice for "household linen."
[21] In the original aureas libras quinque. According to Marino Sanudo
the Younger (Vite dei Dogi in Muratori xxii. 521) this should be
pounds or lire of aureole, the name of a silver coin struck by
and named after the Doge Aurio Mastropietro (1178-1192): "Ancora fu
fatta una Moneta d'argento che si chiamava Aureola per la casata del
Doge; e quella Moneta che i Notai de Venezia mettevano di pena sotto
i loro instrumenti." But this was a vulgar error. An example of the
penalty of 5 pounds of gold is quoted from a decree of 960; and the
penalty is sometimes expressed "auri purissimi librae 5." A coin
called the lira d'oro or redonda is alleged to have been in use
before the ducat was introduced. (See Gallicciolli, II. 16.) But
another authority seems to identify the lira a oro with the lira
dei grossi.
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