Public Documents and Notarial Praxis: Some Examples from Venetian Greece of the Early Fourteenth Century

We are acquainted, in broad outlines, with the history of the archives of Venetian Crete during the period of Venetian rule — both the archives of the duke and the archives of the notaries of Candia — brought to Venice in 1670 after the loss of the island at the end of 25 years of war, ¹ and now kept at the Venetian State Archives. ² For many years I have been working on restoring the original order of those documents. My hope is finally to bring to conclusion the work attempted, but never completed, by several archivists since the nineteenth century, so as to enable their publication as definite inventories.