The documentary nucleus of the Fondo di San Benedetto contains 302 units dating from 932 AD to 1810. It is ordered by type of series and, internally, in chronological progression.
These are:
parchments (series 1, A-H),
maps and chorographic maps, goods and their quantification (series 2, A-Y),
maps and chorographic maps, assets and their quantifications organised in bundles and relating to the 17th-18th centuries (series 3, 1-60),
bundles of possessions (series 4, 1-88),
court cases and other documentation (series 5, 1-35),
land registers (series 6, 1-33),
account books and samples of assets (series 7, 1-41),
account books (series 8, 1-20),
indexes (series 9, 1-6),
protocol and repertory, relating to the 19th century (series 10).
The documentation has been affected by Pomposa’s humidity and shows mould, even if no longer active, tears and lacunae. Access is by appointment only and reproductions are not allowed.

For further information may be consulted:
Le carte dell’archivio di Santa Maria di Pomposa (932-1050), a cura di Corinna Mezzetti, (Roma, Istituto storico italiano per il medioevo, 2016);
ASDFe, Archivio dei Residui ecclesiastici, Elenco di tutte le corporazioni ed altri stabilimenti soppressi dipendenti dall’Amministrazione dei Residui ecclesiastici e camerali di Ferrara, p. 263;
Monumenta Pomposiae di Giuseppe Antenore Scalabrini, in BCAFe, Classe 1,454, cc. 101r-129v. Contains copies of 275 Morini registers;
Regesta Pomposiae di Antonio Samaritani (Ferrara, Deputazione provinciale ferrarese di storia patria, 1963).

References
Archivio Storico diocesano di Ferrara
Corso Martiri della Libertà, 77, 44121 Ferrara
tel.: 0532.228036
e-mail: archivio@diocesiferrara.it
web site: arcidiocesiferraracomacchio.org

The Pomposa documentary nucleus is distributed in the Milan funds of the “Diplomatic Museum” and “Parchments for funds”, (Partition “Appendix – Various Parchments”, “Modena city and province”, “Santa Maria di Pomposa”).
In the first one there is a parchment of 1078 and envelope 20. In the second one there is envelope 713, with 189 parchments between 1120 and 1564.
There are a total of 190 parchment units, stored in envelopes or cassettes.
Most of them are private deeds, both originals and authentic copies: land donations, renewal of fiefs, grants of emphyteusis, easements, contracts, preceptum, etc.

Conservation
Moulds no longer active, abrasions. Tears and tears, ink discolouration, mutilations, gaps.
Conditions of access and reproduction
The original of the units may be consulted on the premises. Not currently available for reproduction.

References
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Archivio di Stato di Milano
Via Senato 10, 20121 Milano
Centralino: 02.7742161
e-mail: as-mi@beniculturali.it 
PEC: mbac-as-mi@mailcert.beniculturali.it
web site: www.archiviodistatomilano.beniculturali.it

The documentary nucleus of the Abbey (later Prepositura) of S. Maria di Pomposa was created by the Este family after the exercise of the jus patronage on the prepositura of S. Maria di Pomposa and on the archpriesthood of Bondeno; it is divided into two series:
Church and Monastery – in which a small but relevant part of the archives of the ancient and famous Benedictine abbey, which also had civil jurisdiction on Codigoro in the Ferrarese area, has been collected. In particular, the series contains, in original or in copy, the fundamental constitutive documents of the Este rights on the provostry and its dependencies and patrimonial consistency, of the rights of the ancient abbey, of which the provostry was in part to be considered the heir. The series consists of 8 envelopes (to which must be added envelope 8 bis, as indicated in the inventory of Filippo Valenti), dating from between 1001 and 1751, of which 81 parchments are part.
Of this series the following shelf marks have been digitally acquired: 1 (A-B), 2 (C-D), 3 (E-F), 4 (G-H), 5 (I-L), 6 (M-N), 7 (O), 8 (P), 8 bis.
Prepositura – the series contains acts and papers of ordinary administration, reflecting the exercise of the jus patronage, the administration of the prepositura and the related litigations and disputes; it consists of 28 envelopes and 132 registers, covering the period from 1491 to 1789.
Altogether the nucleus contains 36 envelopes and 132 registers from the period between 1001 and 1789.
The parchments, often folded, and the papers are kept in folders divided into numbered envelopes; some parchments are sewn to an accompanying cartouche.
It is a miscellany of writings, original and in copy, concerning fundamental constituent documents, 2 diplomas including the “purple privilege” of Henry IV for the abbey of Pomposa dated 7 October 1095.
The documents have been affected by the Pomposa humidity and show mould, as well as tears, ink discolouration and folds due to the dryness of the support. The originals can be consulted on the premises.
The collection is described in the General Guide to the State Archives.

For further information may be consulted:
Il fondo pomposiano presso l’Archivio di Stato di Modena, di Filippo Valenti, in Analecta pomposiana 1 (1965), pp. 361-376 [con inventario parziale].
Le carte dell’archivio di Santa Maria di Pomposa (932-1050), a cura di Corinna Mezzetti, (Roma, Istituto storico italiano per il medioevo, 2016);
Il “privilegio purpureo” di Enrico IV per l’abbazia di Pomposa del 7 ottobre 1095, a cura di Enrico Angiolini, in Quaderni Estensi, Rivista, II – 2010;
ASDFe, Archivio dei Residui Ecclesiastici, San Benedetto, sez. 4, n. 46, cc. 630-640, Summarium quorundam privilegiorum monasterii Pomposiatii breviter et compendiose sumptum prò informatione quadam non inutili volentibus eiusdem monasterii ima cognoscere;
ASFe, Archivio notarile antico, not. Paolo Surchi, matr. 1368, Diplomata imperatorum et bullae pontificum ad favorem monasterii Pomposiam, in compendium redacta et authenticata, incipiendo ab anno 1022 usque ad annum 1263.

References
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Archivio di Stato di Modena
Corso Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour, 21, 41100 Modena
Centralino: 059.230549
e-mail: as-mo@beniculturali.it
PEC: mbac-as-mo@mailcert.beniculturali.it
web site: www.asmo.beniculturali.it

The “Pomposa Papers” fund, containing membranous documents from the 10th to the 14th century.
Total consistency
1046 membranous units, distributed in the consistencies by centuries, as follows
10th century: 17 units
11th century: 160 units
12th century: 141 units
13th century: 481 units
14th century: 175 units
Uncertain date: 72 units
Provenance
The nucleus containing the pompous documents arrived at Monte Cassino in 1882. Frederick of Fürstenberg, Archbishop of Olmütz (today Olomouc in the Czech Republic) donated to the Abbey about 3000 parchments from the Ferrara area, preserved in 105 files. Of these, 1046 units refer to Pomposa Abbey.
Signature intervals
The original shelfmarks are of different types and not in sequence. This disorganisation is due to the fact that the core has been manipulated and dismembered several times, with different criteria and methods of arrangement and conservation.
Today, the Ferrara nucleus at Montecassino is still organised in files containing the parchments numbered in chronological sequence, so the parchments of pomposian provenance are mixed with those of other provenances.
Conservation methods
Rolled, with a scroll bearing the current signature and a Latin index.
Type of deeds
Private acts, in large part. Originals and copies of various kinds.
Donations of land, renewal of fiefs, grants of emphyteusis, easements, sales of goods, etc.
Conservation
Several units show damage from mould that is no longer active, abrasions, tears and erosions, discolouration of the ink. These damages are due to the marshy and humid habitat typical of the Comacchio area, where the Abbey is located.

For further information may be consulted:
The nucleus was registered between 1882 and 1883 by Don Placido Mauro, a monk archivist of Montecassino. The register in Latin is written on the scrolls that still surround the rolls and is also transcribed in the six volumes of the Codex Pomposianus (ms. of the 19th century).
Antonio Samaritani, Regesta Pomposiae, I (aa. 874-1200) (Rovigo 1963);
Le carte dell’archivio di Santa Maria di Pomposa (932-1050), a cura di Corinna Mezzetti (Roma, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2016).

Conditions of access and reproduction procedures
Units can be consulted in original on the premises. Reproductions are permitted for study or publication purposes.

References
Abbazia di Montecassino, via Montecassino s.n.c. – 03043 Cassino (FR)
tel.: +39 0776311529 (switchboard), 0776312258 (archive)
e-mail: montecassinoarchivio@tiscali.it
web site: www.abbaziamontecassino.org

Documentary nucleus
Title: Collection of parchments, Pomposa-Benedictine series
Chronological references: 1001-1462
Purchased in 1884 by Costantino Corvisieri [seller] (with many other documents not related to Pomposa; see ASRoma, Atti della Direzione, tit. X, Acquisti e doni, b. 93, 1883-1892).
Consistency
Total c: 16 units
c. by type of material:
Loose registers: 2 units (nos. 1, 3)
Parchment registers: 9 units (nos. 2, 4-6, 8-9, 12, 14-15)
Paper registers: (nos. 7, 10-11, 13, 16)
Signature intervals
Cass. 199, nos. 1-10
Cass. 200, nos. 11-16
Preservation methods
Flattened (for loose binders), in drawers (all)
For further information may be consulted:
Printed record of docc. 6 and 9 in O. Montenovesi, L’abbazia della Pomposa e una pagina di storia benedettina nella prima metà del sec. XIV, in “Atti e memorie della R. Deputazione di storia patria per le province di Romagna”, 1928, pp. 1-57;
C. Mezzetti, Le carte dell’archivio di S. Maria di Pomposa, Rome 2016.
Conditions of access and reproduction procedures
Original units available for consultation at the premises.
Detailed description
1) Diploma of Otto III (year 1001)
2) Instruction and oaths of monks (13th-16th century), parchment reg. 45 cc. plus one loose sheet of paper
3) Transunto of 1489 October 15 of a privilege of Innocent III to the abbot of the monastery of S. Maria di Pomposa of 1202 March 7
4) Process for the church of S. Lorenzo in Faenza (XIII century), parchment reg. 8 cc.
5) Renewals of emphyteusis from 1299 to 1327 made or given for the monastery of Pomposa in the county of Rimini (copies), parchment reg. 65 cc.
6) Visitationes of 1300 (1338 September 14), authentic copy, parchment reg.
7) Process for the church and convent of S. Bona di Vidoro [?] (1328-1329; 1349), paper reg. bound in parchment of cc. 79
8) Instrumenta (1336-1378), reg. parchment of cc. 14 (two blank)
9) Visitationes (1338-1352), parchment reg. 12 cc.
10) Examples of instruments of the monastery of S. Salvatore di Figarolo, paper reg. bound in parchment of cc. 70 plus index not numbered plus a loose leaf
11) Catasto D, instrumenta (1381-1389, XV century), copies, paper reg. bound in parchment 104 cc.
12) Castrum Faventiae, instrumenta (1383-1458), parchment reg. 55 cc. Originally the register was 77 cc, as shown by an index placed at the beginning without numbering, and contained instruments up to 1421. On the cover, the chronological references were 1383-1458.
13) Book of memories (XIV century), parchment binding, paper reg. of 71 cc. plus two unnumbered ones plus 15 loose sheets
14) Instrumenta (1391-1426), parchment reg. 31 cc.
15) Instruments relative to the goods in villa Ostolati, parchment reg. 20 cc.
16) Inventory of movables and expenses of the monastery of S. Bona di Vidoro ?, reg. paper of cc. 14.

References
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Archivio di Stato di Roma
Corso del Rinascimento, 40
web site: www.archiviodistatoroma.beniculturali.it