Atti dei notai del distretto di Macerata

Item

Country

IT

Name of institution (English)

State Archives of Macerata

Name of institution (official language of the state)

Archivio di Stato di Macerata

Language of name of institution

ita

Contact information: postal address

Corso Cairoli 175, 62100 Macerata

Contact information: phone number

0039 0733 236521

Contact information: web address

https://www.archiviodistatomacerata.beniculturali.it

Contact information: email

as-mc@beniculturali.it

Reference number

ASMm, NM (Notai Macerata)

Type of reference number

Archival reference number

Title (English)

Acts of the notaries of the district of Macerata

Title (official language of the state)

Atti dei notai del distretto di Macerata

Language of title

ita

Creator / accumulator

Notai del distretto di Macerata

Date(s)

1449/1898

Language(s)

ita

lat

Extent

6,596 storage units

Type of material

Textual Material

Physical condition

Good

Scope and content

The vast collection designated Atti dei notai del distretto di Macerata (Acts of the notaries of the district of Macerata) is one of the most important documentary collections kept in the State Archives of Macerata. It preserves the documents produced since the 15th century by the exercising notaries in the city and territorial district of Macerata. According to Andreoni, through the analysis of the numerous documents preserved in this collection, it is possible to reconstruct the commercial activities and family relationships of the Jewish community of Macerata, as well as its relationships with other communities and local authorities (2012). Andreoni published the following document: ASMc, NM, not. Roberto de Robertis, vol. 507, fols. 2v-5r, March 1, 1548, “Meeting of the Jews at the synagogue of Macerata” (p. 143).

Archival history

The Atti dei notai del distretto di Macerata fonds is composed of a single series, divided chronologically according to the different notaries. In fact, this was the order in which the documentary materials were deposited in the State Archives. It contains the acts of the notaries of Macerata, Montecassiano, Montemilone (Pollenza), and Monte San Martino, as well as isolated protocols and loose acts of notaries from various other locations. The series is supported by an online inventory (2020) and four other inventories that can be consulted in the reading room. In addition to the 6,596 volumes of original acts, there are also 1,256 copies of acts from the 16th-19th centuries. At the beginning of the 20th century, a "Tabulario Diplomatico" (Diplomatic Tabulary) was formed within this notarial fonds. The "Tabulario Diplomatico" came to hold fragments of numerous manuscripts in Latin, Italian, Hebrew as well as other Oriental scripts, which had been reused to bind notarial protocols.

Tabulario Diplomatico, Frammenti di manoscritti ebraici ed orientali

Sources:

Documentary Heritage in the Official Website

Guida agli Archivi di Stato - Macerata

Administrative / Biographical history

There is evidence of notarial activity in the city of Macerata since, at least, the 15th century. However, it was only in the mid-16th century that a college of autonomous notaries, operating at the General Curia of the Marca, was established. In addition to the college, it was also established an archive intended to gather and preserve all acts of the exercising notaries in the city until then. During the Napoleonic occupation, the archive became a general archive for the entire department of Musone, one of the territorial districts in which the preceding State of the Church was reorganised. However, after the Restoration, the material returned to its previous locations. This caused inevitable dispersions and losses of records. In 1822, the entire notarial archive of Macerata was intended to become a central archive for the whole district, receiving the historical archives of other municipalities, such as Montecassiano. The same occurred after the unification of Italy when documentation produced by exercising notaries in the Monte Milone and Monte San Martino districts was also incorporated into the archive.

(source: Guida agli Archivi di Stato - Macerata)

Access points: locations

Macerata (Italy)

Access points: subject terms

Italian Jewish communities

Housing

Land

Trade and commerce

16th century

17th century

18th century

Access points: document types

Notarial records

System of arrangement

Records are arranged chronologically.

Finding aids

Four inventories available in the reading room.

Links to finding aids

Pellegrini, Giuseppe and Lucia Giambò (ed.). 2020. "Archivio Notarile Distrettuale di Macerata (1449-1907, con atti in copia 1887-1928)" (chronological list of notaries)

Author of the description

Andrea Cicerchia, 2021

Bibliography

Cassandro, Michelle. 1984. “Gli ebrei di Livorno nel Seicento. Aspetti economici e sociali.” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 50 (9–12): 567–82. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41285395.

Mampieri, Martina, and Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan. 2020. Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th Cent.). Leiden; Boston: Brill.

Saffiotti, Simonetta Bernardi. 2001. “Convivere con minoranze: momenti di vita ebraica nelle Riformanze di Macerata.” Materia Giudaica 6/1: 91–98.

Published primary sources

Andreoni, Luca. 2012. “‘Perchè Non Se Habbia Piu à Tribolare’. Gli Ebrei Della Marca Fra Spazi Economici e Conflitti Giudiziari Alla Metà Del XVI Secolo.” In Gli Ebrei Nello Stato Della Chiesa: Insediamenti e Mobilità (Secoli XIV-XVIII), edited by Marina Caffiero and Anna Esposito, 109–47. Toledoth 4. Padova: Esedra.

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