The Records Of The Venetian Senate On Disk, 1335 1400

by Benjamin G. Kohl

This Digital Archive of the Records of the Venetian Senate for the fourteenth century offers a complete electronic edition of the previously printed Senate deliberations from the series Misti, registers 17-44 (1335-1400), and Secreta, registers Istria (1335), A (1345-48), B (1348-51), D (1376-77), E (1388-97). This database, comprising the Latin texts of 4385 records, provides ready access to this source material by giving for each record the register, folio and date of the original, with short title and page of the edition, a headnote in English summarizing content, and notation of other editions and relevant historical literature.

The digital archive is searchable by any number of parameters: by fondo, register, date and range, by keywords and strings within the documents. A simple console of control buttons allows the user to sort the found sets by date, register, record or edition, and to view and print records on demand in an easily readable format.