This volume recreates, through a register and apt citation, the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the Notai ebrei , a collection of up to 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. These documents throw light on Jewish social and cultural life of the period, including litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogical disputes, rental contracts, apprenticeships, and ownership of property by women.