I codici dell'Archivio storico vescovile di Senigallia (secoli XIV-XV)

This research presents a thorough description of physical and codicological characteristics and information on the contents of 17 codes preserved by the clergy of the Senigallia’s Diocese, in order to produce a kind of inventory. Manuscripts contain some of the documents produced between XIV and XV centuries by the bishops of Senigallia, who played the parts of both the community’s spiritual leaders that of country lords. Therefore, these codes present a wide variety of documents, in particular emphyteutic agreements, leases, purchases of animals and lands, castles’ councils, elections of notaries alongside pastoral visits, inquisitional proceedings, excommunications, synods and tax collections. Some manuscripts are included in the category of notarial registers or “bastardelli”, others have an unambiguous content (e.g. the Codex Gladii is a liber inquisitionum whereas the Miscellaneorum «M» Codex III is also called “code of tithes”), while still others have a miscellaneous content.