Metadata: Record selections - Leopoldina
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Tyrolean Regional Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tiroler Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Michael-Gaismair-Straße 1, 6020 Innsbruck
- Phone number:
- 0043 512 508 3502
- Web address:
- https://www.tirol.gv.at/kunst-kultur/landesarchiv/
- Email:
- landesarchiv@tirol.gv.at
- Reference number:
- Aktenselekte - Leopoldina
- Title:
- Record selections - Leopoldina
- Title (official language):
- Leopoldina
- Creator/accumulator:
- (Second) Privy Council
- Date(s):
- 1595/1755
- Date note:
- ca. 1600/1665 (1750)
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 171 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Record selections - Leopoldina”, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish assemblage with a few Jewish-related documents.
The assemblage covers the period 1600–65 (1750) and comprises subject records (Sach- und Betreffakten) of the Privy Council in the reign of Archduke Leopold V.
Younger subject and complementary files of the Privy Council and territorial chancelleries were also added. Equivalent record selections are “Ferdinandea”, which is older than Leopoldina, and “Hofregistratur-Sonderreihe” (Court Registry – Special series), Cattanea (q.v. JMH-072 in the Yerusha database) and Cameral-Cattanea.
The collection Leopoldina is divided into records sorted into boxes A, B and C and letters filed alphabetically. Files in these sections are arranged numerically. The overall repertory to these selections is book B 701/12. The special repertory concerning Leopoldina is book B 19 (GV/I), which contains an alphabetical index and a register. Some records listed in repertory B 19 were taken from this selection and added to other collections such as “Manuscripts”, “Border records”, “Records of Vorarlberg” and “Art matters”. After 1750, further records were transferred to the Anterior Austrian authorities [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 101].
There are at least three references to Jewish-related documents in repertory B 19, concerning the Jews Lazarus, Rechlin, Joseph and Gerson. The records about Lazarus of Prague and Rechlin of Pfersee concerning inheritance matters are in box C. Under J are the records of Joseph and Gerson of Gorizia/Görz and the “Vidimus” (transcription of a certified record) of their privileges and liberties.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred to the Tyrolean Regional Archive according to the regular document transfer process stipulated by national archival regulations.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Privy Council established by Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol in c.1564 was succeeded by the Second Privy Council, which arose in Innsbruck in the early 17th century with the assistance of Maximilian III, the governor of Tyrol and Anterior Austria from 1602–19. Like the earlier Privy Council, this commission of loyal councillors was the highest administration and judiciary authority in Tyrol and Anterior Austria until 1749. The Upper Austrian government as administrative body and the chamber for financial matters were subordinated to this commission. In 1749, the administrative triad of Privy Council, government and chamber was abolished in the administrative reforms of Maria Theresa and replaced by the comprehensive authority “Repräsentation und Kammer” (Representation and chamber) [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 87–88].
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gerson of Gorizia
- Joseph of Gorizia
- Lazarus of Prague
- Rechlin of Pfersee
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Privileges
- Wills
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Rep. B 19, Rep. B 701/12
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018
