Archivio di Stato di Ascoli Piceno

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The State Archive of Ascoli Piceno is the peripheral office of the Ministry for cultural heritage and activities which, according to the law, preserves the historical documentation produced by the peripheral state administrations in the province of Ascoli Piceno and for voluntary storage, temporary storage, donation or purchase of any other archive or documentary collection of historical importance.

Established as a State Archive Section with Ministerial Decree of 26 April 1954, which became State Archive in accordance with Presidential Decree 30 September 1963 n.1409, it began to carry out its activity in May 1962, after the completion of the current location, characterized by radically innovative technical-archival solutions and still fully valid for rationality and functionality. In 1965, by decree of the Minister of the Interior, the Section of Fermo was associated with the State Archives of Ascoli Piceno, established for the purpose of preserving on site the rich state documentation of the pontifical delegation from Fermo. Following the establishment of the Province of Fermo (Law 11th June 2004 n.147).

The process of acquiring documentary material during the first twenty years of activity was strongly influenced by the archival situation of the province, characterized by the lack of a pre-existing nucleus of documents concentrated and preserved in the capital by local authorities or institutions, by an extreme dispersion of the material in many smaller locations, its mostly bad storage conditions, and the widespread state of disorder and disorganization of the cards, a consequence of neglect in custody and previous transfers. The payments of the pre-unification documentation, of the rich notarial fund, and of the very ancient patrimony, largely parchment, of the suppressed religious guilds, dating back to the sec. XI and comprising numerous imperial diplomas and papal privileges of considerable diplomatic interest; we then proceeded to acquire the funds of the state offices from the Unit in the second half of the century. XX, reaching a total consistency of 2000 parchments, 4,600 cadastral map sheets and 60,000 paper archival units. The deposits made by the Municipality of Ascoli Piceno - with the contribution of a precious parchment fund and the precious codes of theLiber iurium and the fourteenth-century Land Registry -, and by the Province of Ascoli Piceno, which made it possible to complete the city's historical heritage available to users, also enriched by some archives of families and individuals. In 2003 the archive of a historic photographic studio in Ascoli was added, consisting of 4,500 pieces between plates and negatives on film and in 2006 the archive of the Ascoli architect Vincenzo Pilotti (1872-1956), comprising 600 units, mostly drawings and projects.