Metadata: Governor of the Statutes - Registers of Sovereign Acts
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:
- Governatore degli Statuti - Registri degli atti sovrani. Registers 1; 8; 10; 16; 19-20
- Title:
- Governor of the Statutes - Registers of Sovereign Acts
- Title (official language):
- Governatore degli Statuti - Registri degli atti sovrani
- Creator/accumulator:
- Governor of the Statutes
- Date(s):
- 1308-1739
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1387-1575
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 29 registers
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The series Registers of Sovereign Acts (Libri statutorum) consists of 29 registers containing decrees, patent letters, privileges, orders, announcements and mandates, additions and withdrawals by the lords and dukes of Milan, treaties of alliance and peace for the period between 1308 and 1739. It includes the following documents relating to the Jews of the Duchy:
Register 1 (15 September 1334 - 2 May 1440), sheet 128, contains the Capitula in favorem certorum iudeorum, that is the authorisation of Gian Galezzo Visconti to the brothers Menelino, Isac and Vinelmo, another Isac and other Jews, who had asked permission to come and settle in the State, dated Pavia, 5 November 1387. In the same register on sheets 128-129, we find the Preceptum factum Notariis Statutorum et certiis aliis, quod quoscumque iudeos describant (in libris et matriculis comunis Mediolani), dated Milan, 24 June 1388.
Register 8 (9 February 1359 - 18 April 1488), holds the decree dated Milan, 31 August 1473 "Quod Ebrey portent super pectore unum O gialdum", which orders every Jew of the Duchy to wear a yellow mark on the chest, under penalty of four stretches of rope or a fine of some gold ducats. In Register 10 (8 September 1430 - 1 March 1512), sheets 95-96 there is a decree dated 5 March 1481, "In fav. Ebreorum et quod eis non inferatur iniuria". Register 16 (25 August 1503 - 12 January 1530), contains a new grida concerning the obligation of a yellow sign (“it was made public that a Jew is not one who presumes to go to any part of this royal ducal domain without the yellow beret), issued by Francis I on 4 May 1520, in which the prohibition of cohabitation between Jews and Christians is also made explicit.
Register 19 (20 July 1440 - 13 March 1739) includes three provisions, one dated 19 April 1558 (sheet 107), concerning the prohibition for Jews to reside in Milan for more than three days; the second dated 2 September 1566 (sheet 235) which returns to the obligation of the sign, but also introduces the prohibition for the Jews to loan at interest in the territory of the Duchy. The third, of 7 April 1570 (sheet 287), is a grida that prohibits Christians to take part in Jewish festivals and dance with Jews. In register 20 (6 February 1561 - 30 June 1633), sheet 5, we note the provision Pro ebreis of 7 July 1575.
- Archival history:
- The archive, created as the collection of statutory provisions of the civil authorities, was extended in 1396 to the public deeds of private individuals, thus becoming a true registration office. Severely damaged by bad management and a fire that seriously reduced its completeness in the 17th century, the Panigarola archive was entrusted in 1769 to the supervision of Ilario Corte, prefect of the Government Archive. The rearrangement led to the division into two sections: the first, including the writings of private individuals (wills, donations, levels, etc.), was deposited at the Public Archive, then at the Notarial Archive. The second part, comprising all the registers containing treaties, peace treaties, laws, concordie, concessions of the sovereigns, ducal decrees and the like, was deposited at the Ducal Archive of the Castle and then transferred to the State Archive, where it was ordered and restored.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This is the "public" part of the archive of the Office of the Governor of the Statutes, whose first official mention is found in a document dated 1313. From 1351 the Office was managed by the Panigarola family, hence the name by which the archive is normally known – Archivio Panigarola.
- Access points: locations:
- Milan
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes both registers and envelopes for a total of 207 units, divided into six distinct series: 1) 29 Registers of Sovereign Acts (Libri statutorum) containing decrees, patent letters, privileges, orders, announcements and mandates, additions and revocations of the lords of Milan, alliance treaties, “concordie” and peace treaties; 2) 37 Books of bandits (Libri bannitorum), in which the names of bandits were recorded by the State of Milan; 3) 41 Protection books (Libri tutellarum), which recorded the protection of minors; 4) 25 envelopes of gride and quotations (Gridae et citationes); 5) 29 envelopes of publications of donations (Publicationes donationum); 6) 46 envelopes of condemnations (Condemnationes).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Rori Mancino; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018
