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6. Community Archives - Miscellaneous of notarial, public and private deeds (1511-1795 - envelope)
Paper, various dimensions, leaves [720], quinternions and loose leaves
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Folder containing mainly notarial and private deeds, both originals and copies; they consist of leases of deeds of sale for real estate, agreements for performing public works, buybacks, opening and closing of leaseholds, wills, sentences, receipts, proof of purchase, powers of attorney, estimates and surveys, contracts for running the oven, the square and gates of Vignola. The documents, which regard both Vignola and Campiglio, are classified in chronological order on an annual basis in folders, those referring to Vignola are almost all marked with a numerical sequence (from 9 to 89; the following numbers are missing: 1-8, 12, 14, 26, 30-31, 40(2), 59, 61-62, 64, and 77); there is a 19th century inventory which, in part, has enabled us to find in other folders the missing numbers and later removed (cf. Repertorio di Vignola): nos. 1-5 in folder n. 6 in folder 5, n. 14 in folder 38 (leaves 263-264), n. 26 in folder 7. It may be hypothesized that the deeds concerning Campiglio were added to this folder only at a later date. A comparison with the Inventario generale has highlighted how many of the documents listed under the item “File 56 – Deeds and decisions of Vignola, Campiglio and Villa Bianca dated before 1 January 1815” correspond to deeds kept in this folder, namely nos. 6-7, 9, 4-27, 37-38,41-42; furthermore, there are nos. 8/9 (“Manni deed of 14 February 1778 drawn up by the borough of Spilamberto in favour” [erased]), 47/1-5 (file “Chapel to the altar of the Holy Cross and the head of St. Nazarius”) and 52/7 (“Deed of 30 March 1729 on the settlement of two taxes to be paid by the community to the Marquisate Chamber”).
N.B.
In the folder containing the deeds for the year 1767 there is a piece of paper bearing the following words: “Vignola, 9 December 1926. Removed Bonetti deed 3 June 1767. Antonio Montessori (lawyer)” (this is n. 59).
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7. Community Archives - Examinations of governors and clerks, petitions and appeals (1566-1800 - envelope)
Paper, various dimensions, quinternions and loose leaves
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Contains: examinations of governors and clerks of the marquisate (1623-1797), petitions, supplications and appeals of the community of Vignola to the Duke of Sora, the Duke of Modena and the Bishop of Modena (16th-18th centuries); petitions, supplications and appeals of individuals to the community of Vignola, the Duke of Sora, the Duke of Modena and others (1566-1800).
This folder contains documents referring to the examinations of the various governors and clerks of the marquisate, as well as petitions, supplications and appeals, many of which undated, to the Marquises of Vignola and the Dukes of Sora, the Duke of Modena, the community of Vignola and others. Presumably still to be identified, at least part of its content, with n. 3 “Bundle on Decisions” of the Inventario generale, and namely for the “Summary of supplications and appeals made against the former governor Coradini” (n. 3/1) and perhaps for the “Various petitions and decisions against the governors of the Marquisate of Vignola” (nos. 3/4). Undoubtedly, however, petitions and appeals of various origin have been grouped together; the following have been identified as n. 26 of the Repertorio di Vignola (“22 September 1673 The youth of Vignola obtains from Boncompagni part of the castle moat for the playing of football”), and in numbers 52/9 and 52/11 of the Inventario generale (“Communal petition to His Grace on 21 October 1684 that the bell on the "Pubblico" be repaired …” and “Petition to the Duke of Sora on 8 November 1616 in which they ask that the present bell of the clock should be changed for a bigger one, in proportion to His Excellency’s standing, and such a request is granted by Gregorio Boncompagni”).
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8. Community Archives - Correspondence - Letters of the Marquises and the others (1539-1795 - envelope)
Paper, various dimensions, leaves [390], loose leaves
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Contains: letters of the Boncompagnis to the Community of Vignola (1577-1703), letters of various writers to the community of Vignola and drafts or letters of the same community (1575-1779); letters of various writers to addressees who have not all been identified (1539-1795). The Boncompagni letters – mainly of the marquises, but also of other members of the family – focus mainly on questions regarding the life of the community, such as controversies, taxes, appointments and decisions of the governors, forming and approval of the short lists for the choice of syndics and councillors, et; frequently there are marriage, birth and death announcements regarding members of the family, thanks for good wishes or condolences received on such occasions, as well as recommendations for the assignation of vacant benefices or for the appointment of the medical officer and the school master. Presumably they formed the whole or part of the “Bundle of various letters of the Vignola feudatory” which in the Inventario generale is listed under n. 5/3. The letters of various writers to the Community, mainly administrative in nature, include the letters of governors or other officials of the marquises, various private individuals, as well as some letters addressed to the governors themselves and later transmitted to the community; they also include some letters of the Dukes of Este, mostly letters of recommendation for the appointment of medical officer or vacant benefices. Finally, letters of various writers to addressees who are not always identifiable are of a miscellaneous nature and letters have been grouped here when it has not been possible to reconstruct with certainty the origin; almost certainly some come from the marquisate archives (for example, the one addressed to Anteo Claudi). Moreover it may be hypothesized that those addressed to the podestà of Savignano (two from 1539 and two from 1544), together with the bundle of letters of the Contrari family in folder 1, were part of the Bazzani Papers now in folder 31.
Of particular note are the letters in which the following subjects are broached: the resolution of the Community to build the stone loggia towards the citadel according to the wishes of the Contrari family, communicated by Bartolomeo Tristano, on condition that they are permitted to sow rice in the so-called “berlete” (before 1575, these belonged to the counts Contrari); the mission of Count Sigismondo Condolmieri to the court of Ferrara after the death of Count Ercole Contrari (August 22 1575, letter of credentials of the community for Count Condolmieri to the Duke of Ferrara; August 28 and September 2, Sigismondo Condolmieri to the community; September 3, Alfonso d’Este to the community); border dispute between Vignola and Serravalle in the Verdeta woods (May 31 1588 Giacomo Boncompagni to the podestà of Vignola and enclosed letters of the “Assunteria dei Confini di Bologna" (Border Office, Bologna); institution of the silkworm market in Vignola (July 14 1594 and November 15 1595, Giuseppe Torre to the community); expulsion of the Jews (October 6 1599, Giacomo Boncompagni to the community).
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9. Community Archives - Correspondence regarding the "Basse di Vignola" (1754-1795 - envelope)
Paper, various dimensions, quinternions and loose leaves
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Folder containing correspondence and bundles regarding works for defending the lowlands known as the “Basse” from the erosive action of the River Panaro, including reports, surveys, deeds, changes to the land registry entries, division of expenses, I.O.U.s, et as well as documentation concerning the dispute that arose towards the end of 1794 between the miller of Diamante and owners of the lower Basse regarding the excavation by the former of a canal to deviate the waters of the Panaro, near the lock being built to defend the lands threatened by the river. It contains three interesting drawings of the Panaro bed near the Basse and some technical reports by Giovanni Battista Vandelli, Giovanni Francesco Zannini and Giovanni Battista Venturi, experts commissioned to follow the progress of the works. Part of the documentation of this folder is useful for the interpretation of one of the maps of the Municipal Historical Archives (Archivio Storico Comunale), presently housed in Biblioteca “Francesco Selmi” (this is the Map of the course of the Panaro river near Vignola lands, in which are drawn the tufa buffs, and the new wall built on these, and all the surveys made on the occasion of the formal inspection made by the illustrious Supreme Council of Justice on the days 6,7, 8 of the month of December 1764 …, drawn in January 1765 by Gianfrancesco Zannini, engineer and surveyor on behalf of the Chamber of the Marquisate of Vignola and the Community).
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10. Community Archives - Vignola Evaluation (1519-1561 - reg.)
Paper, 430x300mm, leaves [105]
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The incipit of the ledger is missing and presumably it is incomplete with leaves numbered only on recto; according to the original numbering leaves 1, 98 and 103 are missing; binding in leather with signs of patching in the lower right corner of the front cover and the back cover obtained from parchment manuscripts written in red, green and black ink, presumably referring to three different codices. Datable as 1519, the valuation has other annotations of a later period referring to conveyances and changes in entries until circa 1561.
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