Notai di Terni
Item
Country
IT
Name of institution (English)
State Archive of Terni
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
ita
Contact information: postal address
Via Cavour 28, 05100 Terni
Contact information: phone number
0039 0744 59016
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
as-tr@beniculturali.it
Reference number
ASTr, Notai di Terni
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Notaries of Terni
Title (official language of the state)
Notai di Terni
Language of title
ita
Creator / accumulator
Notai del mandamento di Terni
Date(s)
1404/1907
Language(s)
ita
lat
Extent
4,077 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Satisfactory
Scope and content
The Terni district notary fonds is designated as a “superfondo” (super-fonds) because it includes not only the acts drawn up between 1404 and 1907 by the practicing notaries in the city, but also the documentation of the municipal notary archives that started being added to it since 1822.
It is commonly known that towards the end of the 13th century some Jewish lenders from Rome were present in Terni. They would have given life to the first credit company of the city, whose services were also used by the municipality. Nonetheless, a notarial document dating from 1430 shows evidence that some Jews had settled in Terni even earlier. In addition to this activity, there were also several Jewish physicians living and working in Terni. The notarial fonds certainly provides numerous data on the presence of Jews in Terni and their economic and professional activities. However, the presence of Sephardic Jews in the city is residual, rather referable to assimilation within the Roman Jews, which took place between the 14th and 15th centuries, therefore, prior to the late 15th- and 16th-centuries diaspora. Simonsohn (1988) and Toaff (1993) present numerous documents from this archival collection.
It is commonly known that towards the end of the 13th century some Jewish lenders from Rome were present in Terni. They would have given life to the first credit company of the city, whose services were also used by the municipality. Nonetheless, a notarial document dating from 1430 shows evidence that some Jews had settled in Terni even earlier. In addition to this activity, there were also several Jewish physicians living and working in Terni. The notarial fonds certainly provides numerous data on the presence of Jews in Terni and their economic and professional activities. However, the presence of Sephardic Jews in the city is residual, rather referable to assimilation within the Roman Jews, which took place between the 14th and 15th centuries, therefore, prior to the late 15th- and 16th-centuries diaspora. Simonsohn (1988) and Toaff (1993) present numerous documents from this archival collection.
Archival history
The formation of this archival collection can be outlined in four fundamental instances. Firstly, there is a documentary fragment that attests to the formation of a notarial archive in Terni in 1589, gathering documents produced since, at least, 1404. Secondly, an inventory drawn up in 1736, testifies to the reorganisation of the entire fonds, with the recovery and restoration of original bindings that covered the different volumes. Then, in 1807, a new arrangement was necessary, resulting in the production of a more accurate inventory, drawn up by Pietro Antonio Magalotti, Giovanni Camporeali, and Andrea Saverio Salvatucci. At last, after the unification of Italy, the archive was transferred from the ancient Apostolic Palace, then the seat of the municipality, to the Palazzo Carrara. In 1958, the documentation was deposited in the State Archives of Terni, which filled, reorganised, and incorporated the documentation in the local database dedicated to notarial records. The district notary archive of Terni also preserves documentation from the notary archives of Casteldilago, Cesi, Collescipoli, Collestatte, Portaria, and Torreorsina.
Administrative / Biographical history
The notary in Terni emerged around the 13th and 14th centuries, as in other cities in Umbria. It obtained a specific regulation through municipal statutes in the early 15th century. Between 1404 and 1870, there were about 500 practicing notaries in the area of Terni, including the smaller towns of Cesi, Collescipoli, Casteldilago, Collestatte, Portaria, and Torreosina. In 1589, they were integrated into the notary college. Then, the first nucleus of the Terni notarial archive began to be formed at the municipal palace. The main activities of the notaries were drafting wills, inventories of assets, legal acts relating to civil and commercial disputes, and private deeds, such as sales, transactions, or leases.
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Finding aids
Unpublished finding aids:
David, Elisabetta. 1999-2013. "Archivi notarili conservati presso l'Archivio di Stato di Terni, banca dati".
Chronological inventories by notaries available in the reading room.
Author of the description
Andrea Cicerchia, 2021
Bibliography
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