Censimento e guida degli inventari antichi dell’Archivio di Stato di Napoli

Abstract

Over the course of more than 216 years of activity, the Archivio di Stato of Naples has constantly sought to manage its rich documentary heritage despite transfers, losses and destruction, often starting from the indexes created and transmitted by the same institutions that produced the archives deposited or delivered: simple lists of contents, ancint inventories, repertoires and “pandette”. In the collection called Museo, there is a series identified by the letter C, which contains the inventories no more used for archival reference. Between this historical series and the inventories in use, described in the SIAS (State Archives Information System) and in the database of the Archivio di Stato of Naples, there is a collection called Inventari antichi, located in a room next to the Sala inventari, which includes inventories and related materials that, although they concern items that no longer exist or have been rearranged, are still useful for archival reference. This census consists of a description of the ancient reference keys to the documentation held by the Archivio di Stato of Naples and covers the items stored in two rooms of it, where, over time, a large number of access keys have accumulated that are defined as “ancient” because they are no longer useful for research, either because they have been upgraded or because they relate to documentation that has been lost due to war.