Archivio di Stato di Salerno

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The State Archive of Salerno, established in 1812, collects over 130000 archival units and more than a thousand parchments, as well as having a library of around twenty-four thousand volumes. It is located in a medieval palace currently renovated, with an adjoining 13th century chapel of San Ludovico.

The State Archives of Salerno draws its origin from the decree of 22 October 1812 which established "provincial archives at the offices of the kingdom of Naples". After the Restoration, following the "organic archives law" of 12 November 1818, he was one of the first to have practical implementation and was assigned to the first of the three classes foreseen by the ministerial of 27 May 1820. The oldest maps of province were sent to the Grand Archive in Naples and only a modest, although precious documentation, prior to the date of its establishment, is kept in the Archive, including the papers of the monastery of S. Giorgio di Salerno and those of the Salerno Medical College, recovered later. The notarial protocols which have a continuity and organic character for the secc are also preserved. XV-XVIII. The State Archives of Salerno underwent the vicissitudes of all the provincial archives of the South which, placed at the expense of the provincial administrations by the municipal and provincial law of 20 March 1865, n. 2248, had a long period of abandonment. However, the valuable work carried out by Paolo Emilio Bilotti should be noted. With the transition to the state of the provincial archives - which became provincial state archives - following the r.d. September 22, 1932, no. 1391, a better period also opened for the Salerno Archive. In fact, almost at the same time, the work of Leopoldo Cassese began, which put his hand to the rearrangement of the papers accumulated for more than a century, carrying out a laborious reconstruction of the series and archival funds. The work of Cassese took concrete form in the drafting of the historical Guide of the State Archives of Salerno, to which reference is made for further details; if this tool today often appears outdated and incomplete in the data reported, it still remains very valid for the brief introductory notes that the author has given to each judiciary, illustrating its birth, structure and skills. The Provincial Archive of Salerno took the name of the State Archive Section with l. December 22. 1939, no. 2006; finally had the current name by virtue of the Presidential Decree of September 30, 1963, no. 1409. The archives kept here do not of course exhaust the documentation relating to Salerno and other locations in the current province: it will be necessary to look in particular at the fonds kept at the State Archive of Naples.

The patrimony of the State Archive of Salerno is made up of funds of state origin, starting from the Ancient regime up to the present day, and funds of non-state origin. Among the documents of the Old regime (until 1806) there are the documents of the local Courts, the Royal Provincial Audience, the Cadastre and the onciario Cadastre. The documents of the Napoleonic period and of the Restoration include the acts of the Intendenza, the judicial magistrates, the Murattiano Land Registry and the state-owned documents. The post unitary period includes the documents relating to the Prefecture and the Sub-prefectures, the judiciary, the Finance Office, the Civil Engineer, the Provveditorato per studi and the Subeconomato of vacant benefits. Funds of non-state origin include notarial protocols, municipal archives, the provincial administration, religious corporations, private archives and the archive of the medical college which, unlike the famous medical school, was responsible for conferring academic degrees and supervising about doctors and pharmacists.

The library of the Archive, born as a support to the documentary research carried out by the archivists and by those who frequent the Study Room, has grown over time, specializing more and more in the history of southern Italy. In fact, it collects materials and publications relating to local history and the history of the South, both through purchases and for the gifts of the same authors. It currently has over 25,000 volumes, mostly cataloged in SBN. It also preserves an important collection of periodicals which includes more than one hundred newspapers and a few thousand brochures that make up the miscellany. Important are some private funds donated to the Archive, among which the main ones are the Paolo Emilio Bilotti fund, the Carrano fund, the Silvestri fund