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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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Municipal Historical Archive
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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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Viale Vittorio Falzoni Gallerani 16, 44042 Cento (Ferrara)
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 051 6843149
0039 051 6843145
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Contact information: email
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archiviostorico@comune.cento.fe.it
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Reference number
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ASCC, Notarile di Cento
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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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Notarial Archives of Cento
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Title (official language of the state)
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Archivio notarile mandamentale di Cento
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Language of title
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ita
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Creator / accumulator
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Collegio notarile della città di Cento
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Date(s)
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1423/1870
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Language(s)
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ita
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heb
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lat
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Extent
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876 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 Archivio notarile mandamentale di Cento fonds preserves private acts produced in the offices of notaries who worked in the municipality of Cento since the 15th century. These acts were collected in registers, volumes, and folders. The fonds also includes judicial acts of the papal government (1600-1807) and a series of copies of public acts, starting from the second half of the 17th century. Some volumes of this fonds were bound with re-used parchments, including a few Hebrew manuscripts in Sephardic script. Some examples are the following:
ANC, Atti prodotti e miscellanea notarile, b. 214, not. Laurenti pellegrino, Liber Compromissionum 1656-1660: extract of Hebrew Bible (Book of Ezekiel) written in Sephardic square script from the 13th-14th centuries.
ANC, Atti pubblici, b. 77, vol. 6 not. Flavio Baruffaldi, Protocolum anni 1627-28-29: extract of Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi's Halakot ha-Rif, written in Sephardic square script from the 13th century.
ANC, Atti prodotti e miscellanea notarile, b. 45, not. Bartolelli Giovanni, a. 1557: extract of the Babylonian Talmud written in Sephardic square script from the 13th-14th centuries.
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Archival history
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The notarial archive of Cento was established in 1659 by the Cardinal Legate of Ferrara, with the aim of gathering the acts drawn up by the notaries of the Town Hall. Since March 2006, the documentation has been kept in the Municipal Historical Archive of Cento. Previously, it had been deposited in the Pinacoteca of Cento. The documentation includes no indexes for the 16th-century section. However, there are fairly reliable 18th-century repertoires starting from the second half of the 17th century.
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(source: Official Website of Emilia Romagna Archives)
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Administrative / Biographical history
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It was only after the devolution of the duchy of Ferrara to the Papal State, in 1598, that the notarial college of Cento (Ferrara) was aggregated into a single college. Prior to 1659, notaries kept the acts in their own homes and offices. Thenceforth, under Cardinal Legate Lorenzo Imperiali, the acts were gathered into a single archive. Notarial records, particularly the ones relating to the period prior to the Council of Trent (1545-1563), provide abundant information on the social and religious history of the entire area surrounding Cento. The Archivio Storico Comunale di Cento (Municipal Archive of Cento), the current holding institution, was declared of particular historical interest by the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage) in 1992. The Archivio Storico is a rich documentary complex devoted to recording the historical events of Cento.
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(source: History in Official Website)
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Finding aids
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Unpublished finding aids available in the archive:
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Alberti, Maria Teresa. 2004. Elenco di consistenza dell’archivio storico comunale di Cento e archivi aggregati.
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CISAC, Inventario dell'Archivio storico comunale di Cento, 1986.
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Author of the description
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Andrea Cicerchia, 2022
