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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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Vatican Apostolic Archives
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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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Cortile del Belvedere, 00120 Vatican City
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 06 69883314
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0039 06 69883211
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Contact information: email
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archivio@aav.va
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Reference number
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Dataria Ap. Brevia Lat.
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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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Apostolic Data
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Title (official language of the state)
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Dataria Apostolica, Brevia Lateranensia
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Language of title
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lat
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Creator / accumulator
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Santa Sede
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Date note
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1490/1908
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Language(s)
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lat
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Extent
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2,883 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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Good
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Scope and content
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The archive produced by the activity of the Dataria Apostolica – in charge of putting the official date on pontifical documents – collects copies and originals of records, as well as minutes of all documents sent by the Roman Curia. In addition to the papal bulls, decrees, briefs and “motu proprii”, the registers of concessions, licenses, and graces granted are of great interest. Plentiful is the information that can be found in this collection regarding Conversos and Jewish communities not only in the Italian context but also abroad, by virtue of the universalistic character of the Roman Curia. For instance, in Brevia Lateranensia 16, it is possible to find the brief of protection granted by Pope Clement VII to Francisco Mendes, his wife, children and other relatives on December 11, 1531 (fols. 300v-301). Published in Salomon and Leoni (1998), 180-182.
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Archival history
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The vast archive of the Dataria Apostolica was set up by Clement X in 1672, in order to avoid further dispersion of the material, even if, in practice, it was not possible to recover several previous documents. Despite this great loss, the current archive does not seem to have undergone further losses, especially following the Napoleonic appropriation at the beginning of the 19th century. The archive is currently divided into numerous series and sub-series. The one referred to as "Brevia Lateranense" is particularly noteworthy. It preserves registers and minutes of common briefs, which until 1678 were written at the Apostolic Secretariat and subsequently at the Dataria. Concessions for priestly ordinations and matrimonial dispensations can be found, as well as ordinary graces requested through supplications to the pontiff in the "External forum".
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The Dataria Apostolica was established during the 16th century as an autonomous institution, following the articulation of the competencies of the "datario", an official in charge of setting the date on concessions deriving from supplications to the pontiff. The figure of the “datario” already appeared officially at the beginning of the 15th century, from the evolution of previous curial figures with the same task of dating the concessions. Since the 16th century, the "datario" became able to make use of a dicastery with distinct competencies, compared to those of the Apostolic Chamber or Chancellery. This circumstance determined the production of an ever-greater number of papers, whose negligent keeping would compel Pope Clement X, in 1672, to establish a well-articulated archive, divided into distinct series.
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(source: Gualdo, Germano, ed. 1989. Sussidi per la consultazione dell’Archivio Vaticano: lo Schedario Garampi, i Registri Vaticani, i Registri Lateranensi, le “Rationes Camerae”, l’Archivio Concistoriale. Nuova ed. rev. e ampliata. Collectanea Archivi Vaticani 17. Città del Vaticano: Archivio Vaticano)
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Access points: corporate bodies
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Holy See
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Finding aids
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Brevia Lateranensia (Indici 195A, 1041). Index available for consultation in the archive.
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Author of the description
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Andrea Cicerchia, 2022
