Il Protocollo di San Benvenuto amministratore e vescovo della Chiesa di Osimo (1263-1282). Un primo resoconto

This paper analyses the outcomes of an initial investigation about an episcopal register kept in the Diocesan Archive of Osimo. Although the register is known as Protocollo di San Benvenuto, it contains the acts produced by several bishops from the 13th to the 15th century. It consists of 315 parchment papers, in 1882 divided into three volumes, assembled through the union of originally autonomous quires or belonging to different registers. The present study regard only the documentation produced by Benvenuto Scotivoli, administrator and bishop of the Osiman Church from 1263 to 1282, quantitatively prevalent. In particular, this issue focuses on the variety of contents, concerning the current management of bishop’s different competences in spiritualibus and in temporalibus, and the drafting of various documentary typologies – in most cases notary’s imbreviature – and offers point of reflection about the complex relationship between bishop and notaries