Balkan and Eastern European StudiesHistorical Geography and CartographyMedieval European History and Architecture

Ante Birin

2026.1.30Vjesnik Dalmatinskih Arhiva

DOI: 10.58565/vda.6.1.10

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The partnership contract concluded on 4 February 1449, between two Tuscan newcomers in Šibenik, Francis Aldobrandi from Florence and Leonard, son of Victor, from Siena, for the purpose of running a pharmacy is examined to serve as an example for how pharmacies were founded and managed in late medieval communes in the Eastern Adriatic.

Abstract

This article examines the partnership contract concluded on 4 February 1449, between two Tuscan newcomers in Šibenik, Francis Aldobrandi from Florence and Leonard, son of Victor, from Siena, for the purpose of running a pharmacy. In addition to the contract itself, as well as the agreement on its termination and execution – which can serve as an example for how pharmacies were founded and managed in late medieval communes in the Eastern Adriatic – the paper also offers brief biographies of the two Tuscans who made Šibenik their new home.

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BIRIN, Ante. A pharmacy of tuscan newcomers in šibenik. Vjesnik Dalmatinskih Arhiva, 2026, 6(1): 242–280.