marta calleri & marta luigina mangini 203 espitethe general disregard of notaries’ wills, for several reasons they are relevant and heuristically promising resources offering a largely untapped source of research topics about the notarial profession. This paper is a first attempt to analyse these kinds of sources. In fact, notaries’ wills can allow us to consider anew certain topics that are central to the history of the notarial profession – such as the practices typical of guild solidarity, which have so far been studied mainly in legislation – and also to understand some issues more specifically related to the dynamics of documentary transmission. These include the mechanisms of devolution andpost-mortempreservation of documents produced and/or held in the course of a notary’s professional activity – primarily registers of imbreviaturae, but also formularies and law codes.* D Abstract * The initial two paragraphs are attributed to Marta Calleri, the subsequent two to Marta Luigina Mangini.
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