Metadata: Notarial - Last transfers. Testaments
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- Milan State Archive
- 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:
- Notarile - Ultimi versamenti. Testamenti. Folders 3892; 3895-3898; 3904
- Title:
- Notarial - Last transfers. Testaments
- Title (official language):
- Notarile - Ultimi versamenti. Testamenti
- Creator/accumulator:
- Notarial archive of Milan
- Date(s):
- 1876-1892
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1876-1887
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 7 files
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The series, called "Testaments" (items 3889-3904) comprises wills preserved separately by notaries and subsequently collected in a section in the Notary Archives. The wills are secret or public, holographs or written by a notary. For each notary there is a form with name, surname and residence; for each testament the name and surname of the testator are specified as well as the father’s name, date and place of residence, date of the deed, typology and reference to the repertoire number of the testaments.
Based on the rubric, it has been possible to identify 6 testaments: 1. Colombo Stefano son of Giosué, drafted by Bossi Cesare, without date; 2. Vitali Antonio son of Vitale, drafted by Bossi Cesare, without date; 3. Crof Simone, drafted by Martinoni, 19 May 1882; 4. Albeck Federico (?), drafted by Staureghi, 5 April 1880; 5. Debenedetti lawyer Elia son of Israel, born in Acqui and resident in Milan, drafted by Ranzi, 22 August 1887 (secret sealed testament); 6. Ottolenghi Enrichetta widow Levi, drafted by Ponti Luigi, 19 July 1876 (sealed testament).
- Archival history:
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The law of 1875, included in the Regulation of 1911, established that the archives of the central magistracies of pre-unification states should form, within the individual Archives, the section of State Acts. The other fonds had to be divided into three more sections, namely Judicial Documents, Administrative Documents, Notarial Deeds. All the remaining archives should form special sections.
Until 1963 the fonds of the State Archives of Milan were then assigned to the various sections, which changed over time [among them we point out the Historical-diplomatic, the Administrative and Financial, the Judiciary, the Military, the Confidential archive; in 1919, after the management of Luigi Fumi, sections of State Acts and Administrative Acts, Judicial Proceedings, Archives of the reigns of the Visconti and Sforza, Religion fonds and collections; in 1950 the First sections (State Acts i.e. Peronian Government Acts), Second (Administrative Acts), Third (Judicial Acts), Fourth (Special Collections), Fifth (Purchases, Gifts, Transfers)].
Following the loss of a large quantity of documents, series and entire fonds during the Second World War and with the transfer of new large archives, including the Notarial Archive and the Cadastral Archive, the fonds were reorganised.
The General Guide to the State Archives describes the fonds of the AS MI in the 1980s, grouping them, where possible, according to the historical period (Ancien Régimes, Napoleonic, Restoration, Post-unitary). The Acts of Government fonds (15th-19th century) could be inserted in any of these historical periods, for its peculiar characteristics, and is considered in its own right. The Diplomatic fonds is also presented in its own right, including the Diplomatic Archive (consisting of the fonds with the oldest documentation) and the Historical Section (containing miscellaneous material and collections). The remaining fonds are identified by type or according to the creator body (Fascist archives, Notaries, Cadastres, Pious and Charitable institutions, Religious corporations; Family and individuals' archives, Different archives, Collections and miscellaneous).
In terms of order and arrangement, the archival history of the pre-unification fonds of the AS MI was characterised by the so-called Peronian system, a particular type of organisation by subject implemented in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Milanese archivists, who created the complex of fonds named Government Acts; to the latter were added the documentary aggregations carried out in the 18th and 19th centuries that produced collections and miscellaneous sections.
See also http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/soggetti-conservatori/MIAA00017D/.
The documentation kept by the Milan District Notarial Archive was transferred to the State Archives of Milan from 1944. It mainly includes the deeds produced by notaries and those created by the Milan Notarial Archive or merged in it for various reasons. Since 1944, there have been several transfers in 1947, 1953, 1963, 1973, 1984 and 1993, when it also received wills and records from the offices of the registry. In 1995 the documents of the General Archive, of the Chamber of Notarial Discipline and the documents produced by the Archbishop's Chancellery were transferred. The last transfer was made in 2007-2008.
The subfonds "Atti dei notai (Notarile Ultimi versamenti)" (Notarial - Last transfers. Testaments, pieces 1 - 3888), contains documentation from the Milan District Notary Archive that was received through several transfers over the years: 1963 (up to 1 January 1863 and with an appendix of notaries prior to 1800), 1973 (with documents up to 1 January 1873), 1984 (with documents up to 1 January 1884), 1993 (with documents up to 1 January 1893). In addition, the last transfer contained, besides deeds and indexes, wills from different notaries (items 3889-3904), documents of the Registry Office (items 3905-4074) and the Indexes of the parties (items 1-14).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Notarial Archive was established in Milan by a royal letter from the Empress Maria Teresa on 22 May 1769. Before that date, notarial deeds of various kinds (sales, procurements, dowries, testaments, post-mortem inventories and others) were kept by individual notaries and heirs. Following the Royal Edict of 1 October 1775, the Milan Notarial Archive acquired bundles and rubrics of deeds from notaries in Milan and in the duchy (with the exception of the cities of Como, Cremona, Lodi, Pavia and partly Varese) that had died since 1290 and the deeds produced by the Office of the Governor of the Statutes, called Panigarola (abolished in 1787), which was responsible for collecting the registration of almost all other deeds of civil authorities and public deeds of private individuals. The Royal Decree of 25 May 1879, no. 4900, in the post-unification age, defined the obligation to transfer notarial deeds to the Notarial Archive on the death of the notary or his heirs and the obligation for all holders - in different ways - of parts or entire notarial archives to transfer them to the relevant Notarial Archive. The law of 22 December 1939, no. 2006 finally established the obligation for all Notarial Archives to transfer the deeds of notaries who had practiced before 1 January 1800 to the respective State Archive. Over the years the State Archives of Milan have constantly received transfers of notaries’ deeds that have increased the fonds’ documentary heritage. Currently the district notarial archives keep notarial deeds for 100 years, after which period they are transferred to the State Archives for definitive conservation (law 629 of 17 May 1952) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/complessi-archivistici/MIBA00EB37/).
- Subject terms:
- Wills
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
