Notarile antecosimiano
Item
Country
IT
Name of institution (English)
State Archives of Florence
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
ita
Contact information: postal address
Viale Giovine Italia 6, 50122 Florence
Contact information: phone number
0039 055263201
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
asfi@archiviodistato.firenze.it
Reference number
Notarile antecosimiano
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Notarial records (prior to 1569)
Title (official language of the state)
Notarile antecosimiano
Language of title
ita
Creator / accumulator
Archivio pubblico dei contratti per lo Stato fiorentino
Date note
13th century/1569
Language(s)
ita
lat
Extent
21,488 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Notarile antecosimiano fonds comprises notarial records of the territories subject to Florentine jurisdiction prior to 1569. It includes deeds of notaries operating in Arezzo, Florence, Pisa and Pistoia. Among these records, it is possible to find information regarding Portuguese and Spanish Jews and conversos established in Florence and other cities under the Florentine state's jurisdiction until the mid-16th century. Therefore, it includes rich material for studying this early settlement of the Sephardic Jews in Tuscany. For instance, Michele Luzzati (2012) supported part of his research on the presence of Iberian Jews in Empoli, Florence, Arezzo and Pisa in the late 15th century and early 16th century in notarial records from this fonds.
Archival history
The records of this fonds were initially kept at the respective notaries. However, from the early 14th century onwards, they were also preserved at the Arte dei giudici e notai del comune di Firenze.
Following a provision issued on December 14, 1569, at the time of Cosimo I of Medici, these records were collected in the new Archivio pubblico dei contratti (public archive of contracts), especially established for the conservation of notarial deeds of the Florentine state.
In 1782, on the occasion of the reorganisation of the archive, the documents prior to 1569 were separated from the later records. This division gave rise to two distinct archival fonds: the Notarile antecosimiano and the Notarile moderno.
When both fonds were separated, new indexes organised by the notaries' surnames were drafted. In 1988, Carlo Vivoli composed an inventory of this fonds (Repertorio numerico-topografico degli atti e dei documenti dei notai toscani anteriori al 1569) that was transcribed and converted into a database by Eva Masini in 2015. It is available on the archive website, as well as the inventory of the Appendix section, transcribed by Fabio Biagi from Antonio Anzilotti's Inventario sommario (1912).
Following a provision issued on December 14, 1569, at the time of Cosimo I of Medici, these records were collected in the new Archivio pubblico dei contratti (public archive of contracts), especially established for the conservation of notarial deeds of the Florentine state.
In 1782, on the occasion of the reorganisation of the archive, the documents prior to 1569 were separated from the later records. This division gave rise to two distinct archival fonds: the Notarile antecosimiano and the Notarile moderno.
When both fonds were separated, new indexes organised by the notaries' surnames were drafted. In 1988, Carlo Vivoli composed an inventory of this fonds (Repertorio numerico-topografico degli atti e dei documenti dei notai toscani anteriori al 1569) that was transcribed and converted into a database by Eva Masini in 2015. It is available on the archive website, as well as the inventory of the Appendix section, transcribed by Fabio Biagi from Antonio Anzilotti's Inventario sommario (1912).
Administrative / Biographical history
In the early 14th century, the municipality of Florence entrusted to the Arte dei giudici e notai the task of supervising the conservation of the notarial deeds. In the following century, a deposit of deeds began to be developed in this guild. However, most of the notarial records continued to be kept by the notaries, who took up the deeds of their predecessors. The provision of December 14, 1569 established the Archivio pubblico dei contratti, a public archive to collect all the deeds produced by the notaries of the state of Florence.
Access points: locations
Access points: subject terms
Access points: document types
System of arrangement
Records are arranged alphabetically according to the names of the notaries: first name (older notaries) or surname.
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2021
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