On 13 January 1429, an inventory of the movable and immovable property inherited from the nobleman of Koper, Almerico Brate, by his two minor sons, Gregor and Sardius, was drawn up in Koper. The inventory is extensive, the inventoried movable property was valued at 1601 ducats and 10,411 lire, and the total value of the inventoried property was approximately 7000 ducats. On the basis of the analysis of the inventory and other contemporary sources, the paper provides an insight into the nature of the property and economic activity of the noble family of Koper, which did not belong to the exclusive circle of the most successful among the nobility of the home town, and its involvement in the functioning of the largest late medieval city on the eastern Adriatic as an urban organism
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