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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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State Archive of Terni
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Language of name of institution
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ita
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Contact information: postal address
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Via Cavour 28, 05100 Terni
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 0744 59016
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Contact information: email
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as-tr@beniculturali.it
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Reference number
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ASTr, Notai di Terni
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Notaries of Terni
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Title (official language of the state)
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Notai di Terni
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Language of title
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ita
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Creator / accumulator
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Notai del mandamento di Terni
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Date(s)
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1404/1907
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Language(s)
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ita
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lat
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Extent
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4,077 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Satisfactory
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Scope and content
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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.
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Archival history
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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.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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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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(source: SIAS - Archivi di Stato di Terni)
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Finding aids
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Unpublished finding aids:
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David, Elisabetta. 1999-2013. "Archivi notarili conservati presso l'Archivio di Stato di Terni, banca dati".
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Chronological inventories by notaries available in the reading room.
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Author of the description
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Andrea Cicerchia, 2021
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Bibliography
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Loevinson, Ermanno. 1932. “La concession de banques de prêts aux juifs par les Papes des seizième et dix-septième siècles. Contribution à l’histoire des finances d’Italie.” Revue des études juives 92–94.
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Pellegrini, Paolo, ed. 2017. Presenze Ebraiche in Umbria Meridionale Dal Medioevo All’Età Moderna: Atti Della Giornata Di Studi, Acquasparta 12 Giugno 2014. Studi e Ricerche. Foligno (Perugia): Editoriale umbra.
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Simonsohn, Shlomo. 1988. The Apostolic See and the Jews. Studies and texts 94, 95, 99, 104–106, 109–110. Toronto, Ont., Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
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Toaff, Ariel. 1993. The Jews in Umbria. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill.
