Metadata: Volta Autographs
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- Mantua State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- Postal address:
- via Roberto Ardigò 11, 46100 Mantova
- Phone number:
- +39 376324441
- Web address:
- http://www.asmantova.beniculturali.it
- Email:
- as-mn@beniculturali.it
- Reference number:
- 90
- Title:
- Volta Autographs
- Title (official language):
- Autografi Volta
- Date(s):
- 1400-1799
- Date note:
- 15th-18th century
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 3 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains autographs removed from the Gonzaga Archive by Leopoldo Camillo Volta, director of the public Library of Mantua at the beginning of the 19th century. Folder no. 1 contains a letter of the Jewish physician Abramo to the duke of Mantua (22 September 1529) and folder no. 2 includes a letter of the marquis of Mantua, discussing the same Abramo (3 December 1504).
- Archival history:
-
In 1900, by virtue of an agreement between the Ministry of the Interiors and the Municipality of Mantua, Volta's collection together with the whole "Archivio Gonzaga" were delivered to the State Archive of Mantua where they are still kept.
For historical information about the holding institution, the State Archive of Mantua, see http://guidagenerale.maas.ccr.it/document.aspx?uri=/istituticonservatori/IC0460022101
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Collezione Volta di autografi was created by Leopoldo Camillo Volta in his capacity of director of the governmental library (1783-1822) in Mantua. As director of the Library, he was one of the few allowed to access the Gonzaga Archives and and able to borrow documents. After his death (1822), these documents were found at the Municipal Library of Mantua grouped in two boxes.
See also http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-complesso-documentario?step=dettaglio&codiSanCompl=san.cat.complArch.31023&idSogc=&id=31023
- Access points: locations:
- Mantua
- Finding aids:
- Guida Generale degli Archivi di Stato. Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018