Metadata: Papal bulls and briefs, Pio II
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Milan
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivio di Stato di Milano
- Postal address:
- via Senato 10, 20121 Milano
- Phone number:
- +39 027742161
- Web address:
- http://www.archiviodistatomilano.beniculturali.it/
- Email:
- as-mi@beniculturali.it
- Reference number:
- Bolle e brevi papali, Pio II, XLII.
- Title:
- Papal bulls and briefs, Pio II
- Title (official language):
- Bolle e brevi papali, Pio II
- Creator/accumulator:
- Diplomatic archive
- Date(s):
- 1100-1807
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1460
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 2 boxes, 64 parchments
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Pope Pius II orders that a tax on capital and property of 5 percent a year be imposed on the Jews to help finance the war against the Turks. This copy is addressed to the Duke of Milan.
- Archival history:
- The Pius II sub-series is part of the Papal Bulls and Briefs Collection, which comprises documents relating to the various pontiffs from 1100 to 1807. The prevalent documentary types are privileges, mostly addressed to monasteries and through which the Pope confirmed the assets and possessions of a monastery in addition to making other concessions; apostolic mandate and concession letters, bulls, solemn letters, confirmations of sentences, documents issued by minor ecclesiastical authorities, notifications of members of the Roman curia. Next to these types are the "Brevi" (Briefs): acts that are distinguished from the letters and from the bulls for the texture of the thinner parchment and the presence of wax rather than lead seals, with the addressee written on the verso. Documents of Jewish interest can be found among the papers of the pontificate of Pius II, Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1458-1464), and mainly concern an ordinance issued by the pontiff to the Duke of Milan.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1801 Bossi, general prefect of the Archives and Libraries, decided to set up a diplomatic Archive with all the ancient "diplomas" or written monuments and in particular, according to what Bossi himself declared in 1812, all the documents written on parchment, goat or veal leather, or any other support (also cotton or linen paper), dating from the 8th to the end of the 14th century, i.e. until the year 1400 of the Common Era. In 1806 Daverio, "national" archivist of the General Archives of San Fedele in Milan, drafted a project and on 19 September 1807 a decree was finally issued that established the Diplomatic Archive, to be directed by Daverio himself. Precise "Instructions" were prepared to find parchments in the archives of ecclesiastical institutions. The inspectors had, in fact, "to watch" over the episcopal and parochial archives, and over those of churches, convents and monasteries or other corporations, noting in particular the overall condition and the contents of these archives. In particular the inspectors had to ascertain the presence of documents, ancient books, codices or parchment registers created prior to the 14th century; the Instructions also suggested the strategies to be adopted to prevent the documents from being hidden or removed from the inspection. In 1807 the Diplomatic Archive, housed in the premises of the former Jesuit house of San Fedele, contained, according to an 1809 report by the general prefect of the archives to the Ministry of the Interior, 7030 parchments from the minor Chapter of the Cathedral, from the main Monastery, the Monastery of Sant'Agostino, Sant'Apollinare, Sant'Ambrogio, San Giorgio al Palazzo, the Monastero della Vittoria, Chiaravalle, Morimondo, Casorate and Rosate, Cairate, the Certosa di Pavia and San Benedetto of Cremona. In that same year (1809), after the occupation of Vienna by a Franco-Italian army, the papers of the suppressed corporations that the Austrians had taken in 1799 were brought back to Milan. In 1813, the archivist don Luigi Settala separated and classified the parchments that gradually came from the various Departments and shelved them according to origin and date. In 1834 he set the 16th century as a time limit for parchments and organised them in a geographical and chronological order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
