Metadata: Families fonds
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:
- box 68
- Title:
- Families fonds
- Title (official language):
- Fondo Famiglie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Milan State Archives - Historical-Diplomatic Section
- Date(s):
- 1600-1899
- Date note:
- Material in this fonds dates from the 17th to the 19th century. Jewish-related material dates from 1478
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 211 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents relating to families from Milan, Lombardy and other localities in alphabetical order, in particular decrees, memorials and various papers. Relating to the community of Pavia, Giacobbe, son of Manno of Pavia, is quoted, who sends a petition to the Duke and the Duchess for the cancellation of a fine. He was ordered to pay 472 sterline, 15 soldi and 9 dinari to Francesco De Vegii as the balance of a debt of 1,000 florins; in the attachment there is another petition presented by Jacob, in which he notes that three quarters of the 1,000 florins represent interest. He was again fined 25 ducats and asks for the cancellation of the sanction.
- Archival history:
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The fonds formed part of the Historical-Diplomatic Section of the Government Archives, created by Luigi Osio between 1851 and 1873, with documents coming mostly from the Sforza Archive and the State Chancelleries Milan; it was then included in the Historical Section by Luigi Fumi, Director of the State Archive of Milan (1908-1920).
In the room inventory there are several references to the Archives of the Archduke of Austria Rainier, Viceroy of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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At the beginning of Luigi Osio’s directorship of the Government Archives (1851-1873) the central archive, the military archive, the archives of the vice-royal Chancellery and the Plenipotentiary Commission were kept in the premises of the former Jesuit house of San Fedele. Due to lack of space, the Judicial Archive was housed in San Damiano, the Provincial Civic Archive in San Carpoforo, the General Archive of the Religion Fund in Santo Spirito, and the Archives of the Presidency of the Austrian Government of Lombardy in the Major Monastery. In 1852 the Diplomatic Archive and the annexed School were also transferred to San Fedele.
Luigi Osio inherited the organisation of the fonds in the Senate building in San Fedele, which was largely subject based, according to the Peronian titles (waters and roads, agriculture, escheat, heraldry, wealth, trade, borders, crown, worship, exemptions, chamber and imperial fiefs, finance, chambers of commerce, civil justice, punitive justice, pious institutions, military, police, population, sovereign powers, foreign powers, health, public shows, roads, studies, treasury, treaties, courts, food supplies) and complemented by other fonds left out of the organisation by subject (including chambers of commerce, prints, autographs). Anticipating the legislative provisions of 1875, in the Regulation of the State Archive of Milan of 1871 Osio pointed to the division of the Archive into two sections, Historical-Diplomatic and Administrative, set the time limit of the latter to 1535 and tried to find acts before that date in all series to place them in this section. Thus, the historical-diplomatic section contained ancient historical documents up to 1535, the administrative section modern acts of interest for the public administration and private individuals. Within the two sections the distribution was chronological or by topic.
The historical section included the following documentary cores: the Diplomatic Museum; papal bulls and briefs; imperial, royal and ducal diplomas and sovereign dispatches; parchments of the Religion fonds, removed from their original site for conservation reasons; diplomatic correspondence of the dukes of Milan with the kingdoms of Europe from the 15th century to 1535; diplomatic correspondence after 1535; ducal and letter registers; foreign and sovereign powers; families; municipalities; statutes; autographs; Panigarola Archive and letters; “Gride” and registers of “gride”; Acts of the secret council, ducal secretariats, secret chancelleries; Senate; families of the rulers; Acts related to borders; treaties; heraldry; Imperial and Chamber of Commerce fonds; Autographs; Letters and decrees; Miniatures; Seals.
Osio increased the historic-diplomatic section, taking documents from modern archives simply because they were dated before 1535. The next director (Cantù) tried to repair this by relocating these documents to their original archives. Among the subsequent directors, Luigi Fumi in particular stopped this project and tried to carry out a reconstitution of the fonds according to the principle of origin, eliminating the artificial series created by Osio. Fumi, director of the Milan State Archive from 1908 to 1920, after relocating the documents, divided what was left in two parts, according to their origin: the Diplomatic Section and the Historical Section. In the former he included the fonds Diplomatic Museum, Bulls and briefs, Diplomas and sovereign dispatches and Parchments by fonds, in the latter the fonds Autographs, Families, Municipalities, Seals, Statutes.
The General Guide includes under the “Diplomatic” heading: the Diplomatic Archive composed of the fonds diplomatic Museum, Bulls and briefs, Diplomas and sovereign dispatches, Parchments by fonds; other fonds, ie Autographs, Families, Municipalities, Seals, Statutes. (see http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/soggetti-produttori/ente/MIDB000BE6/)
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
