Frammenti manoscritti ebraici
Item
Country
IT
Name of institution (English)
State Archive of Bologna
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
ita
Contact information: postal address
Piazza de' Celestini 4, 40123 Bologna
Contact information: phone number
0039 051 223891
0039 051 239590
0039 051 239590
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
as-bo@beniculturali.it
Reference number
ASBo, Manoscritti, Ebraici
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Hebrew manuscript fragments
Title (official language of the state)
Frammenti manoscritti ebraici
Language of title
ita
Creator / accumulator
Archivio di Stato di Bologna
Date note
11th century/15th century
Language(s)
heb
Extent
187 parchments
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
This collection consists of fragments of Medieval parchment manuscripts reused in the Early Modern period as bindings of the documents written by various institutions of the city of Bologna. The fragments present an overview of the different Jewish scripts (Italian, Ashkenazic, and Sephardic). This collection comprises not only manuscripts produced locally but also of different origins, thus showing that Bologna was a crossroad of cultures and a place of successive settlements of communities of the Ashkenazic and Sephardic diasporas. Talmudic fragments must certainly be included among the most important findings from the so-called “Genizah” of Bologna. In particular, some rather rare testimonies of the Palestinian Talmud are noteworthy, as well as the more numerous testimonies of the Babylonian Talmud. The collection holds several fragments in Sephardic script, of which the following are listed according to importance, with their respective signatures of origin:
- Palestinian Talmud (Ševi‘it), written in Sephardic square script. 11th-12th centuries. In: Ufficio dei Vicariati, Caprara, a. 1556.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 12th-13th centuries. In: Tribunale del Torrone, Civilium Fori Archiepiscopalis, a. 1554; Tribunale del Torrone, Miscellanea, Foro arcivescovile, Actorum Criminalium, a. 1555; Ufficio dei Vicariati, Vergato, a. 1556; Ufficio dei Vicariati, Lignano, Preceptorum, a. 1555; Miscellanea di Rota, Atti Uffizio del Leone Nuovo, a. 1555.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 13th century. In: Tribunale di Rota, Not. Bartolomeo Avoglio, Mandatorum, a. 1568; Tribunale di Rota, Not. Bartolomeo Avoglio, Debitorum et Comparitionum 1555; Tribunale di Rota, Not. Cristoforo Glavarini, Liber Actorum anni, a. 1567; Atti dei Notai, Not. Giulio Belliossi, aa. 1610-1613.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 13th century. In: Ufficio delle Acque, Liber Denuntiationum et quaerelarum off. Aquarum, a. 1577; Ufficio dei Vicariati, Castel S. Pietro 1604; Ufficio delle Riformagioni, Actorum 1567.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 13th-14th centuries. In: Atti dei Notai, Not. Giovanni Battista Affiatati, Actorum, a. 1552; Tribuni della Plebe, Giulio Cesare Veli, Decretorum, a. 1555.
- Palestinian Talmud (Ševi‘it), written in Sephardic square script. 11th-12th centuries. In: Ufficio dei Vicariati, Caprara, a. 1556.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 12th-13th centuries. In: Tribunale del Torrone, Civilium Fori Archiepiscopalis, a. 1554; Tribunale del Torrone, Miscellanea, Foro arcivescovile, Actorum Criminalium, a. 1555; Ufficio dei Vicariati, Vergato, a. 1556; Ufficio dei Vicariati, Lignano, Preceptorum, a. 1555; Miscellanea di Rota, Atti Uffizio del Leone Nuovo, a. 1555.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 13th century. In: Tribunale di Rota, Not. Bartolomeo Avoglio, Mandatorum, a. 1568; Tribunale di Rota, Not. Bartolomeo Avoglio, Debitorum et Comparitionum 1555; Tribunale di Rota, Not. Cristoforo Glavarini, Liber Actorum anni, a. 1567; Atti dei Notai, Not. Giulio Belliossi, aa. 1610-1613.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 13th century. In: Ufficio delle Acque, Liber Denuntiationum et quaerelarum off. Aquarum, a. 1577; Ufficio dei Vicariati, Castel S. Pietro 1604; Ufficio delle Riformagioni, Actorum 1567.
- Babylonian Talmud, written in Sephardic square script. 13th-14th centuries. In: Atti dei Notai, Not. Giovanni Battista Affiatati, Actorum, a. 1552; Tribuni della Plebe, Giulio Cesare Veli, Decretorum, a. 1555.
Archival history
At present, this collection includes only 187 of the 818 fragments of Hebrew manuscripts found after 1986 by Mauro Perani, when he was conducting research for the "Italian Genizah Project” of the University of Bologna. Until 2011, all the detached fragments were preserved in six of the then nine storage units that composed the “Raccolta di manoscritti" (Collection of manuscripts). This collection was composed of not only Hebrew parchments but also fragments of Latin, Greek, French and Provençal codices, as well as musical manuscripts. When the last reorganisation of the collection was carried out, the Hebrew fragments were placed in 17 new storage units, and the current filing and inventory systems were produced. Then, it was created an autonomous section of Hebrew fragments within the collection of fragments of manuscripts.
Administrative / Biographical history
The fonds that holds the volumes from which the Jewish fragments have been detached is part of the original collection of the State Archives of Bologna. Established in October 1874, the archive was intended to gather the documentation produced by the governing bodies of Bologna from the Middle Ages to the fall of the Ancient Regime (1796), as well as the documentation produced by the peripheral offices of the Papal State (until 1861) and the Italian State, during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The first director, Enrico Frati, had to face two main issues. Firstly, he had to determine how to arrange the documentation; and, secondly, where to locate it. In 1882, Carlo Malagola, the second director of the archives, began to organise the documentation. At present, this organisation is still apparent in the State Archives.
In the first decades, the archives were located in the rooms of the former Ospedale della morte, adjacent to the Archiginnasio Library. These rooms were also intended to house the Museo Civico (City Museum). However, due to the increase in contemporary documentation, in 1940, it was decided to transfer the State Archives to the former Celestine convent, where they are still located today.
The fonds from which the Jewish fragments were detached are the following: Ospedale di San Francesco (Saint Francis Hospital), Atti dei notai del distretto di Bologna (Notary records of the Bologna district), Corporazioni religiose soppresse (Extinct religious organisations), Diversorum notariorum (Notary miscellanea), Ranuzzi-Cospi, Foro dei mercanti (Merchant's forum), Studio poi Università di Bologna (University of Bologna), Tribunale del Torrone (Torrone Court), Tribunali civil (Civil courts), Tribuni della Plebe (Tribunes of the People), Ufficio acque e strade (Water and roads office), Ufficio del Registro (Registry Office), Ufficio delle Riformagioni (Riformagioni Office), Vicariato di Argile, Vicariato di Caprara sopra Panico, Vicariato di Castel San Pietro, Vicariato di Frassineto, Vicariato di Galliera, Vicariato di Ligliano, Vicariato di San Giorgio di Piano, Vicariato di Varignana and Vicariato di Vergato.
The first director, Enrico Frati, had to face two main issues. Firstly, he had to determine how to arrange the documentation; and, secondly, where to locate it. In 1882, Carlo Malagola, the second director of the archives, began to organise the documentation. At present, this organisation is still apparent in the State Archives.
In the first decades, the archives were located in the rooms of the former Ospedale della morte, adjacent to the Archiginnasio Library. These rooms were also intended to house the Museo Civico (City Museum). However, due to the increase in contemporary documentation, in 1940, it was decided to transfer the State Archives to the former Celestine convent, where they are still located today.
The fonds from which the Jewish fragments were detached are the following: Ospedale di San Francesco (Saint Francis Hospital), Atti dei notai del distretto di Bologna (Notary records of the Bologna district), Corporazioni religiose soppresse (Extinct religious organisations), Diversorum notariorum (Notary miscellanea), Ranuzzi-Cospi, Foro dei mercanti (Merchant's forum), Studio poi Università di Bologna (University of Bologna), Tribunale del Torrone (Torrone Court), Tribunali civil (Civil courts), Tribuni della Plebe (Tribunes of the People), Ufficio acque e strade (Water and roads office), Ufficio del Registro (Registry Office), Ufficio delle Riformagioni (Riformagioni Office), Vicariato di Argile, Vicariato di Caprara sopra Panico, Vicariato di Castel San Pietro, Vicariato di Frassineto, Vicariato di Galliera, Vicariato di Ligliano, Vicariato di San Giorgio di Piano, Vicariato di Varignana and Vicariato di Vergato.
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Author of the description
Andrea Cicerchia, 2022
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