Metadata: Milan Senate - Judicial dispensations for communities and institutional bodies
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:
- Senato di Milano - Deroghe giudiziarie per comunità e corpi. Boxes 2; 55
- Title:
- Milan Senate - Judicial dispensations for communities and institutional bodies
- Title (official language):
- Senato di Milano - Deroghe giudiziarie per comunità e corpi
- Creator/accumulator:
- Milan Senate
- Date(s):
- 1500-1899
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1568-1695
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 98 boxes
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The series Judicial Exceptions for Communities and Bodies is made up of 98 envelopes containing documents from the 16th-18th centuries. These are exceptions to the then current legislation (especially statutory law), requested by local communities and by institutional bodies (especially corporations of arts and crafts). File 2 of box 55, entitled "Milan - University of the Jews", contains an order of the Senate to the conservators of the Public Properties, who had been delegated to carry out the census of 21 June 1575, which reminds them that the Jews are exempt from the payment of the appraisal tax and of the residential tax. This exemption derives from the privilege granted by Philip II in 1533.
It should be noted, for completeness, that file 17 in envelope 2 contains documents relating to the Jewish Community of Alessandria for the years 1568-1695.
- Archival history:
-
The first archival collection concerning the Senate seems to have been created 1570, on the orders of Philip II. There are reports of reordering of the papers in 1699 and especially in the second half of the 18th century (between 1753 and 1765) by the archivist Ilario Corte. In 1805 the archive of the Senate, which had not existed as a magistracy since 1786, was transferred "to the Canonica near San Bartolomeo and then in 1811 to the Augustinian convent in San Damiano, where it was put together with the papers of the various judicial magistracies of the 19th century.”
From 1908 to 1911 a new inventory project and overall rearrangement of the Senate papers was carried out that resulted in an organisation into 23 series: 1. Civil sentences; 2. Delegations in front of the senators; 3. Proceedings before the senators; 4. Acts and documents; 5. Judicial derogations for communities and bodies; 6. Summary judgments for supplications and answers; 7. Summary judgments for communities and bodies; 8. Waters; 9. Exemptions; 10. Citizenships; 11. Fedecommissum; 12. Exemptions for legitimisation; 13. Patents; 14. Patents, elections to different positions or jobs; 15. Miscellanea; 16. Privileges and ratifications; 17. Sovereign dispatches; 18. Consultations and memoranda; 19. Orders and circular letters of the Senate; 20. Gride of past governors, by subject; 21. Chamber proceedings; 22. Criminals; 23. Registers.
During the bombings of Milan in August 1943 that devastated the State Archive, the Senate papers suffered enormous losses and entire series were completely destroyed. According to the list of war damages, 10,502 envelopes and bundles and 271 records from the years 1550 to 1789 were lost in the fire of the Senate building. Only a few series were saved which, collected after the Second World War, constitute the Senate fonds of Milan in its current form.
See also http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/complessi-archivistici/MIBA0024C8/
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Senate, the supreme judicial organ of the Duchy, was established in 1499 by the King of France Louis XII, merging in it the responsibilities of the two previous ducal councils of the Sforza, the Secret Council and the Council of Justice. It had irrevocable jurisdiction in civil and criminal, economic, fiscal and ecclesiastical cases. It also had the right to confirm the orders of the royal power and to oppose the application of orders from the king or his representative, should they conflict with the fundamental laws of the state (“interinare”). The Senate supervised all justice officials (with the exception of the Quaestors of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magistrates, the Prefects of the annona, collaterals, general vicars and public prosecutors), and had the right to appoint and supervise the members of various city and state magistracies and to directly control the administrative life of the major cities of the State. The Senate was stripped of most of its powers in 1771.
- Access points: locations:
- Alessandria
- Milan
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Taxation
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in eight series: 1. Acts before the senators - Supplement; 2. Acts and documents: Special occurrences; 3. Judicial Exceptions for communities and institutional bodies; 4. Feoffments; 5. Privileges – Series A; 6. “Interinazioni” - Series B; 7. Opinions of the Senate in ecclesiastical matters; 8. Addition.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Rori Mancino; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018