Metadata: Notaries. Lombardi's index
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:
- Notarile. Indice Lombardi. Volumes 46; 74; 105; 150; 159; 182
- Title:
- Notaries. Lombardi's index
- Title (official language):
- Notarile. Indice Lombardi
- Creator/accumulator:
- Notarial archive of Milan
- Date(s):
- 1209-1899
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1467-1595; 1800
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 233 volumes
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The tools created by the Notarial Archive that accompany the notarial deeds include the so-called "Lombardi Index", consisting of 233 volumes. It is a manuscript index of notarial deeds, created at the beginning of the 19th century by the collegiate advocate Gerolamo Lombardi, conservator of the Public Archive (or Notarial Archive), together with Isidoro Sacco and Leopoldo Lavelli (Royal Dispatch 27 July 1775 of the Empress Maria Theresa to the Archduke Ferdinand, in Royal Dispatches, folder 254, file 52).
The Lombardi Index compensates for the lack of “rubriche” (indexes), on average for about a third of the notarial deeds, even if for the 17th century it has been verified that only the deeds of a hundred notaries out of a total of more than 1000 were filed. The series contains some of the notarial deeds of the series "Acts of notaries" grouped according to the name of the notary, the nature of the deed, the date, the order number given by the compilers to the individual deeds (this number is essential for finding the deed in the Notary fonds) and the page of the volume in which the deed was collected.
Some volumes were examined as a sample. In volume 46 (CARENZ-CARNISI) 5 deeds were found with the name Rafael Carmini, four of them drawn up by notary Emanuele Pisani son of the late Martino (years 1574-1581) and one by notary Pietro Dante Sessa son of the late Melchiorre (a sale of 1615).
In the entry "Jews", in volume 74, the deeds of the following notaries were identified: Giuseppe Martignoni, son of the late Giovanni Antonio (a payment made by the University of the Jews of the State of Milan to the conservator Giacomo Trezzo dated 25 May 1584); Emanuele Pisani son of the late Martino (nine deeds involving the University of the Jews for the years 1574 and 1579-1580); Alessandro Carcani, son of the late Battista (two deeds); Marco Bevilacqua, son of the late Giovanni Antonio (two deeds of 1531 on behalf of the "Jew Cervio son of the late Giacobbe"; Materno Figini (8 deeds for the years 1467; 1469 and 1471).
No deed of interest was identified in volumes 78 (FERRARISI-FIORET), 80 (FOP-FRANCA) and 228 (VISINI-UMB), while in volume 105 (LEG-LIGERI), sixteen deeds were found under the surname Levi for the period 1513-1593. The notary Emanuele Pisani, son of the late Martino, drew up, on 10 May 1583, a deed of transfer from Lazzaro Levi, son of the late Moise, to Paolo Sormani; the notary Girolamo Corio, son of the late Damiano, drew up two deeds, one on 27 April 1513 and the other on 5 March 1519, for Gasparino Levi, son of the late Giovanni, and Simone Levi respectively. Two other deeds were drawn up by the notaries Antonio Marliani, son of the late Paolo, (19 February 1556) and Giuseppe Martignoni, son of the late Giovanni Antonio, (11 December 1593), on behalf of Salomone Levi, son of Marco, and Giuseppe, son of the late Marco Levi, respectively. The remaining eleven deeds concern notaries from Abbiategrasso (Giacomo, son of the late Dionigi Pozzobonelli) and Arona (Paolo Curzio, son of the late Giovanni Gioacchino Annoni).
In volume 150 (PAV-PEG), under the heading Pavia, three deeds were recorded, two of which were drawn up by the notary Zanotto Pusterla son of the late Giovanni Battista: the first on 30 August 1599 in the name of the Pavia brothers, sons of the late Simone, and the second, on 12 March 1607, in the name of Clemente Pavia, son of the late Simone. The same Clemente together with his partners turns out to be one of the stakeholders of the deed drawn up by the notary Alessandro Carcani, son of the late Battista, on 16 May 1597.
The analysis of volume 159 (PONCURONI-PORCISI) confirmed the presence of large gaps in the indexing of the deeds. Although it has been ascertained from the available bibliography that Leon, son of the late Simone Pontremoli, was a contracting party in numerous notarial deeds on behalf of Rafael Carmini and Lazzaro de Levi, representatives of the University of the Jews of the State of Milan, under the heading Pontremoli only two deeds have been identified: a "confessio" or payment of Simone Pontremoli, son of the late Gabriele, to Filippo Licati, son of the late Martino, drawn up by the notary Benedetto Castiglioni, son of the late Tommaso, on 31 August 1517 and a testament of Fantino Pontremoli, son of the late Riccardo, (who is not identified as a Jew) of 17 November 1500, drawn up by the notary Giovanni Ambrogio Casteni, son of the late Giovanni.
Volume 182 (SA-SAG) includes the heading Sacerdote, a Jewish family originally from Alessandria, a city which in the 16th century was part of the Duchy of Milan. Vitale Sacerdote and his son Simone were prominent figures of the local community and had important relations with the highest spheres of the Spanish administration both in Milan and in Madrid. It was Simone Sacerdote who dealt with the clauses of the expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy with Philip II, obtaining from the sovereign that it be subordinated to the total reimbursement of the credits claimed by the Jews from the State and private individuals. It was to Simone Sacerdote (along with Clemente Pavia, Consiglio Carmini, Isacco Soave) that Philip II also granted authorisation to remain in the state, well beyond 1597, the year of the definitive expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy, with the extraordinary permission to reside in Milan and in other cities.
In the “rubrica” 182 were found, under the heading Vitale Sacerdote, son of the late Simone, the deeds dated 13 May 1551 and 27 February 1560 (drawn up by the notary Ludovico Varesi, son of the late Stefano) and of 16 February 1580 (drawn up by the notary Alessandro Carcani son of the late Battista); under the heading Sacerdoti Vitale, son of the late Simone, and son Simone two deeds of 18 January 1588 (drawn up by the notary Giovanni Francesco Picco, son of the late Giovanni Antonio) and three deeds drawn up by the notary Alessandro Carcani, son of the late Battista, respectively of 31 May 1581, 27 January 1582 and August 1583.
The deeds of 18 and 21 January 1581, drawn up by the notary Alessandro Carcani, son of the late Battista, and those of 6 August 1582, 26 November 1582 and 7 March 1583, drawn up by notary Emanuele Pisani, son of the late Martino, were related to Sacerdoti Matassia di Vitale, son of the late Simone.
In Abbiategrasso, the notary Paolo Curzio Annoni, son of the late Giovanni Gioacchino, drew up the deeds of Isacco Sacerdoti, son of the late Giuseppe, for the years 1589-1590; 1592-1595; 1597; while the notary Giovanni Francesco Legnani, son of the late Antonio from Abbiategrasso, took charge of the power of attorney, dated 15 January 1538, of Perla Sacerdoti, daughter of the late Michele.
- 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/
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The notarial archive was established in Milan with a royal letter of Empress Maria Theresa on 22 May 1769 and inaugurated on 1 October 1775. Directed by the archivist Ilario Corte, the institute had the task of preserving public deeds between private individuals, produced by the Office of the Governor of the Statutes, called Panigarola, established in the 13th century, reorganised in 1396, heavily damaged by a fire and inefficient management and definitively abolished in 1787. In the course of its long existence the Office of the Governor of the Statutes had the task of collecting and recording almost all the other acts of the civil authorities as well as the public acts of private individuals, becoming a real Record Office.
Before the creation of the notarial archive, copies of the various deeds (sales, proxies, dowries, wills, post-mortem inventories and others) were kept by individual notaries and their heirs. Following the royal edict of 1 October 1775, the Milanese notarial archive acquired bundles and indexes of notaries from Milan and the Duchy (with the exception of the cities of Como, Cremona, Lodi, Pavia and partly Varese) that had died from 1290 as well as the acts produced by the Office of the Governor of the Statutes, called Panigarola.
The Royal Decree of 25 May 1879, no. 4900, in the post-unification period, established the obligation of the transfer of notarial deeds to the notarial archive upon the death of the single notary or his eventual termination and the obligation for all holders - for various reasons – of parts or entire notarial archives to transfer them to the concerned 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 relevant State Archive. Over the years the State Archives of Milan have constantly received transfers of notaries’ deeds that have increased the fonds’ documentary heritage.
- Access points: locations:
- Milan
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lombardo, Girolamo 1504-1590
- Subject terms:
- Legal records
- System of arrangement:
- The series is arranged in alphabetical order by name of the contracting parties.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Rori Mancino; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018
