Tabulario Diplomatico, Frammenti di manoscritti ebraici ed orientali

Country

IT

Name of institution (English)

State Archive 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, Tabulario Diplomatico, Frammenti manoscritti ebraici ed orientali

Type of reference number

Archival reference number

Title (English)

Diplomatic Tabulary, Fragments of Hebrew and Oriental Manuscripts

Title (official language of the state)

Tabulario Diplomatico, Frammenti di manoscritti ebraici ed orientali

Language of title

ita

Creator / accumulator

Notai del distretto di Macerata

Jewish community of Macerata

Date note

12th century/18th century
Hebrew fragment with Sephardic script dated from 13th-14th centuries

Language(s)

heb

Extent

806 fragments (50 Hebrew fragments)

Type of material

Textual Material

Physical condition

Good

Scope and content

The Tabulario Diplomatico series is annexed to the Atti dei notai del distretto di Macerata (Acts of the notaries of the district of Macerata) fonds and contains over 800 fragments of parchment manuscripts, recovered at the beginning of the last century from the bindings of notarial protocols. These fragments were divided into different sub-series, according to their provenance and writing characteristics. Among these series, it can be found the "Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali" (Fragments of Jewish and Oriental manuscripts), containing 50 fragments. At least nine of them are fragments of Babylonian Talmuds with Sephardic script dating from the 13th-14th centuries. A list of such fragments follows:
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 721: Yoma 23a-255a, Sephardic square script.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 723: Pesahim 113b-115a, Sephardic square script.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 724: Bava Batra 102b-105a, Sephardic square script with Italian influences.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 725: Bava Mesi ‘a 66b-69a, 75a, Sephardic square script with Italian influences.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 726: Bava Mesi ‘a 66b, 79a, Sephardic square script with Italian influences.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 727: Bava Batra 3a-3b, 6b-7b, Sephardic square script with Italian influences.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 729: Sabbat 129a-130a, Sephardic square script with Italian influences.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 731: Sabbat 118b-119a, Sephardic square script with Italian influences.
ASMc, Tabulario Diplomatico, nr. 710-757, Frammenti di codici ebraici ed orientali, plate n° 732: Berakot 49b-50a, Sephardic square script.

Atti dei notai del distretto di Macerata

Archival history

The Tabulario Diplomatico started to be formed in 1905, following the discovery and conservation of parchment covers of notarial protocols from the 16th-17th centuries. In fact, these covers are fragments of 806 parchment manuscripts written between the 12th and 18th centuries, at present gathered into different typological sections: Codex Iuris Civilis; Codex Iuris Canonici; Various Legal Codes; Ars dictandi; Ars notaria; Medieval Constitutions and Statutes; Notarial writings in parchment; Grammar; Rhetoric; Poetry; Philosophy; Medicine and science; Religious and Gospel codices; Manuscripts in Hebrew and other Eastern languages.

Administrative / Biographical history

There is evidence of Jewish presence in Macerata in the 15th century when a Hebrew bank was already active in the city. This bank would have preceded the foundation of a Monte di Pietà (Mount of piety, institutional pawnbroker). There is documentation recording the competition between the Monte di Pietà and the Jewish lending activity dating from the beginning of the 16th century when the papal chamberlain issued some provisions to protect the Jews. In the second half of the 16th century, the expulsion edict ordered the Jewish community to abandon Macerata. Albeit, at the end of the 16th century, some Jews who had received papal permission to reside and carry out trade in Macerata were still living in the city. Various recovered manuscript fragments in the notarial fonds show evidence that the Jewish community of Macerata was essentially of Italian tradition, with Ashkenazi and Sephardi scions.

(source: Italia Judaica: Macerata)

Access points: locations

Iberian Peninsula

Macerata (Italy)

Access points: corporate bodies

Jewish community of Macerata

Access points: subject terms

Sephardic manuscripts

Reuse of Hebrew manuscripts

Talmud

13th century

14th century

Access points: document types

Hebrew fragments

Finding aids

Perani, Mauro, and Enrica Sagradini. 2004. Talmudic and Midrashic Fragments from the Italian Genizah: Reunification of the Manuscripts and Catalogue. Quaderni Di Materia Giudaica 1. Firenze: Giuntina.

Author of the description

Andrea Cicerchia, 2021

Bibliography

Cassandro, Michele. 1996. Intolleranza e Accettazione: Gli Ebrei in Italia Nei Secoli XIV-XVIII: Lineamenti Di Una Storia Economica e Sociale. Torino: G. Giappichelli.

Perani, Mauro. 2014. “Manuscripts Brought to Italy by the Jews Exiled in 1492: The Evidence of the ‘Italian Genizah.’” Hispania Judaica Bulletin 10: 287–310.