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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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State Archives of Florence
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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 Giovine Italia 6, 50122 Florence
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 055263201
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Contact information: email
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asfi@archiviodistato.firenze.it
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Reference number
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Notarile moderno
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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 Records (after 1569)
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Title (official language of the state)
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Notarile Moderno
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Language of title
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ita
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Creator / accumulator
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Archivio pubblico dei contratti per lo Stato fiorentino
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Date(s)
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1569/1860
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Language(s)
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ita
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Extent
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77,583 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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The Notarile moderno fonds comprises notarial records of the territory subject to Florentine jurisdiction after 1569. It includes deeds of notaries operating in the territories of Arezzo, Florence, Livorno, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia and Siena. The fonds is divided into several series according to the document typology: Protocolli (protocols), Atti originali (original deeds), Atti rogati dai notai forestieri (deeds made by notaries outside Tuscany, but regarding residents of the Grand Duchy), Rogiti feudali (deeds regarding particular jurisdictional situations characterised by feudal ties), Mandate dei testamenti (copies of the mandates sent by notaries to the Archivio generale dei contratti); Testamenti segreti pubblicati and Testamenti segreti non pubblicati (an intermediate form between the holographic will and public will); Testamenti olografi pubblicati and Testamenti olografi inediti (wills handwritten and signed by the testator); Testamenti rogati dai notai forestieri (wills by foreign notaries); and Testamenti raccolti da preti o coram parocho. Public wills were drawn up in duplicate, and one copy was preserved in the Protocolli series and the other in the Atti originali.
These notarial records are an essential source to report the settlement and activity of Portuguese and Spanish Jews and conversos in Tuscan cities. Particularly interesting is the commercial information regarding Sephardic merchants that can be found in this fonds. For instance, Francesca Trivellato has explored the Notarile moderno to obtain information regarding some Sephardic merchants and companies operating in Livorno, such as the Ergas e Silvera company or Moses and Abraham Franco. Lucia Frattarelli Fischer also searched on this fonds data to reconstitute the trade networks involving Jews of Livorno (see Bibliography below). The fonds also includes several wills and testaments of Iberian Jews who lived and died in Tuscan cities. A general inventory of wills and testaments, "Repertorio generale dei testamenti", available in the archive in microfilm (M/4) is organised by year and testator name. The Testamenti rogati dai notai forestieri is also particularly interesting for those who study the Western Sephardic Diaspora, since last wills drafted by foreign notaries are deposited in translation in the Florentine office of public contracts.
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Archival history
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Following a provision issued on December 14, 1569, the notarial records of the territories under the jurisdiction of the Florentine State were gathered in the Archivio pubblico dei contratti (public archive of contracts). The Notarile moderno fonds was created in 1782 on the occasion of the reorganisation of the archive, when the records after 1569 were separated from the earlier documents. Then, new indexes organised by the notaries' surnames were drafted. The wills were also organised according to chronological criteria and bound in volumes.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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In the early 14th century, the municipality of Florence entrusted to the arte dei giudici e notai the task of supervising the conservation of the notarial deeds. In the following century, a deposit of deeds began to be formed in this guild. However, most of the notarial records continued to be kept by the notaries, who took up the deeds of their predecessors. The provision of December 14, 1569 established the Archivio pubblico dei contratti, a public archive to collect all the deeds produced by the notaries of the State of Florence.
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(source: Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani)
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System of arrangement
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Records are arranged alphabetically according to the notary's surname.
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Access, restrictions
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The original deeds ("Atti originali") are not available for consultation, except for some particular cases, namely the lack of copies ("Protocolli") or the existence of documents attached to the original deed. Apart from these exceptions, only the copies could be consulted.
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Links to finding aids
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Benzoni, Chiara, ed.. "Elenco alfabetico dei primi 1000 notai e dei loro protocolli. Da Abati Iacopo a Bonaccorsi Francesco Maria" (N/474 I e II)
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Biscione, Giuseppe, ed. 2015. "Atti rogati da notai forestieri: Inventario sommario" (N/472)
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Conti, Paola and Biscione, Giuseppe. 2004. "Testamenti segreti pubblicati (1571-1888)" (N/356)
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D'Angelo, Fabio and Morviducci, Marcella. 2021. "Testamenti segreti non pubblicati" (N/355)
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Fuda, Roberto, ed. "Inventario sommario dei notai che hanno rogato in Toscana dal 1569 al 1860" (N/484)
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Fuda, Roberto Fuda, ed. 2014. "Mandate dei testamenti. Filze trimestrali (1570-1808): Elenco cronologico" (N/467)
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Pistolesi, Cecilia. 2021. "Testamenti coram parocho: Indice dei testatori dei testamenti rogati coram parocho (sec. XIX seconda metà)" (N/353)
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Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani
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Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani: Notarile moderno
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2021
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Bibliography
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Filippini, Jean-Pierre. 1984. “Il posto dei negozianti ebrei nel commercio di Livorno nel Settecento.” Rassegna mensile di Israel 50 (9–12): 634–49.
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Frattarelli Fischer, Lucia. 1983. “Proprietà e insediamento ebraici a Livorno dalla fine del cinquecento alla seconda metà del settecento.” Quaderni storici 18 (54): 879–96.
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Frattarelli Fischer, Lucia. 1984. “Tipologia abitativa degli ebrei a Livorno nel Seicento.” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 50 (9–12): 583–605.
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Frattarelli Fischer, Lucia. 2000. “Cristiani nuovi e nuovi ebrei in Toscana fra cinque e seicento. Legittimazioni e percorsi individuali.” In L’identità dissimulata: giudaizzanti iberici nell’Europa cristiana dell’età moderna, Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini, 99–149. Firenze: L. S. Olschki.
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Frattarelli Fischer, Lucia. 2002. “Reti locali e reti internazionali degli ebrei di Livorno nel Seicento.” In Commercial Networks in the Early Modern World, Diogo Ramada Curto and Anthony Molho, 148–75. Florence: European University Institute.
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Toaff, Renzo. 1990. La nazione ebrea a Livorno e a Pisa (1591-1700). Florence: L.S. Olschki.
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Trivellato, Francesca. 2000. “From Livorno to Goa and Back: Merchant Networks and the Coral-Diamond Trade in the Early-Eighteenth Century.” Portuguese Studies 16: 193–217.
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Trivellato, Francesca. 2002. “Jews of Leghorn, Italians of Lisbon, and Hindus of Goa: Merchant Networks and Cross-Cultural Trade in Early Modern Period.” In Commercial Networks in the Early Modern World, Diogo Ramada Curto and Anthony Molho, 59–89. Florence: European University Institute.
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Trivellato, Francesca. 2004. “The Port Jews of Livorno and Their Global Networks of Trade in the Early Modern Period.” Jewish Culture and History 7 (1–2): 31–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2004.10512008.
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Trivellato, Francesca. 2009. The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. New Haven London: Yale University Press.
