Giudici, notai e prassi documentarie nei domini sabaudi (secoli XIII-XV)

The essay focuses on the documentary manners underpinned by those notaries active in the princely courts in the territories dominated by the House of Savoy in the late Middle Ages. First of all, the competition of notaries and judges is analysed through the topic of deeds’ authentication. Although princely legislation enforced contracts thanks to the practice of affixing judicial seals, however, a thorough analysis of the documents in question reveals an increasing use of notarial authentication employed to the same scope. Secondly, the research investigates the involvement of judges in the control over the imbreviature authored by deceased notaries. Finally, the type of judicial registers is outlined by distinguishing between imbreviature and registers owned by the offices; the transformations of the two types are related to the evolution of the general legislation. The research sheds light on the complexity of the technical mediation – not only as writers of authenticated documents – that notaries offered to judicial offices.