Notai del mandamento di Gubbio; Riformanze

Country

IT

Name of institution (English)

State Archives of Gubbio

Name of institution (official language of the state)

Archivio di Stato di Gubbio

Language of name of institution

ita

Contact information: postal address

Piazza XL Martiri 1, 06024 Gubbio

Contact information: phone number

0039 075 9221494

Contact information: web address

http://www.archiviodistatoperugia.it/L%27Istituto/Le%20sedi/Gubbio

Contact information: email

As-pg.gubbio@beniculturali.it

Reference number

ASGubbio, Archivio notarile
ASGubbio, Comune, Riformanze

Type of reference number

Archival reference number

Title (English)

Notaries of the “mandamento” of Gubbio; Reformations

Title (official language of the state)

Notai del mandamento di Gubbio; Riformanze

Language of title

ita

Creator / accumulator

Notaries of Gubbio, Scheggia-Pascelupo, Costacciaro, Pietralunga and Nocera Umbra

Municipally of Gubbio

Date(s)

1314/1936 (Notai del mandamento di Gubbio)
1326/1794 (Riformanze)

Language(s)

lat

ita

Extent

2601 volumes and 100 documents (Notai del mandamento di Gubbio)
101 files (Riformanze)

Type of material

Textual Material

Physical condition

Good

Scope and content

Among the main collections preserved in the State Archives of Gubbio, it is possible to find documentary evidence of the Jewish presence in the region, especially in the notarial archives and the Riformanze series.
The Archivio notarile mandamentale di Gubbio preserves acts produced by notaries of Gubbio. In addition to notarial records of Gubbio, the archive also preserves documents produced by notaries of the surrounding territories, namely the current municipalities of Scheggia-Pascelupo, Costacciaro and Pietralunga. The notarial documentation includes records of private and non-public nature that provide a portrait of the daily life of the community of Gubbio.
The Riformanze (Reforms) series belongs to the vast Comune (Municipality) fonds, which comprises the chapters of reforms and extraordinary interventions promoted by the municipal authority from the Middle Ages to the end of the Ancient Regime. Among this documentation, Alessandra Veronese (2005) identified some documents attesting to the presence of Jews in Gubbio and their activity, especially in the early 16th century. Some examples can be found in the following signatures:
ASGubbio, Notai del mandamento di Gubbio, n. 185, not. Gaspare Santicchi (1499-1500), fols. 125v-126.
ASGubbio, Comune, Riformanze, n. 34 (1496-1501), fols. 123-v.
ASGubbio, Comune, Riformanze, n. 35 (1502-1506), fols. 63, 108, 126, 137, 148.
ASGubbio, Comune, Riformanze, n. 36 (1507-1506), fols. 7, 18, 29.

Archival history

The Notai del mandamento di Gubbio and Riformanze fonds are part of the archival heritage of the Gubbio section of the State Archives, established in 1956. This heritage was formed with the acquisition of two main documentary groups: the Municipal Archives and the Armanni collection, related to the historian of Gubbio, Vincenzo Armanni (1608-1684). The Riformanze series is part of the Municipal Archives, which is divided into two parts: Ancient Regime and Restoration (19th century). Other important documentary groups of the Gubbio section of the State Archives are the archives of suppressed religious congregations and the vast notarial fonds, which comprises the documents produced by the notaries of Gubbio and neighbouring localities, as well as records from the notaries of Nocera Umbra.

Sources:

Guida degli Archivi di Stato

"Il patrimonio documentario della Sezione di Archivio di Stato di Gubbio". In: Archivio di Stato di Perugia website

Administrative / Biographical history

The origins of the city of Gubbio date back to the Umbrian people, a pre-Roman population who inhabited the central part of the Italian peninsula. Later, the region was romanised and assumed an important role due to its location at the crossroads of the main communication routes. In the Middle Ages, during the struggles between the papacy and the empire, distinct governments alternated, either in favour of the Church (Guelphs) or the Empire (Ghibellines). Removed from the jurisdiction of the Duchy of Spoleto in 1384, Gubbio became part of the territories of the Montefeltro family, dukes of Urbino. After the extinction of the Duchy of Urbino in 1631, Gubbio became part of the Umbrian province of the Papal State, to which it belonged until the Italian unification in the 19th century. During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, under the dominion of the Montefeltro, various groups of Jews settled in Gubbio, exercising the activity of lending and closely connected to the larger community of Urbino. Although the presence of elements from the Sephardic diaspora of the 15th and 16th centuries was rather occasional, there was no lack of previous influences from the Iberian context (around the 14th century), which soon assimilated to the Italian Jewish tradition.

Sources:

Italia Judaica – Gubbio

Toaff, Ariel. 1981. “Gli ebrei a Gubbio nel Trecento.” Bollettino della Deputazione di Storia Patria per l’Umbria 78: 153–92.

Access points: locations

Gubbio (Italy)

Access points: subject terms

Italian Jewish communities

Economic matters

Trade and commerce

14th century

15th century

16th century

Access points: document types

Notarial records

Links to finding aids

Guida agli Archivi di Stato – Perugia

Author of the description

Andrea Cicerchia, 2021

Bibliography

Gasperoni, Michaël. 2012. “I banchieri ebrei nel Ducato di Urbino Tra Cinque e Seicento.” In , edited by Marina Caffiero and Anna Esposito. Vol. Gli ebrei nello Stato della Chiesa. Insediamenti e mobilità. Toledoth 4. Padova: Esedra.