This contribution examines a parchment document discovered in a poorly conserved state in the Municipal rubbish dump of Cupra Marittima. The text of the document has, for the most part, fallen apart due to cuts, drops and lacerations in the membrane, and the ink is everywhere faded and smudged. A partial reading of the fragment and investigations which extended to medieval records of the Castle of Marano conserved in the historical archives of the Fermo Municipality, has made it possible to understand, in part, the content of the document relating to the pacts of 1254 between the Fermo Municipality and the Castle of Marano, and to identify the writer of the document as the notary Giacomo
