the forms and functions of notaries’ wills in central and northern italy tulariis> faciat quicquid facere voluerit”.48 The same thing happened in 1285, when the Milanese notary Zanebello, son of the late Pietro Antillio, who worked in thein curia archiepiscopatus in the years 1254–1256, ordered “in ultima sua voluntate” that his imbreviaturae should be entrusted to his colleague Pietro, son of the late Guglielmo magister de Sesto, who also worked in the archiepiscopal palace during the same period.49 Ithappened again in 1340, when the Podestà of Treviso, at the request of the dean of the cathedral chapter, entrusted the records of the cleric Alberto Todeschini, the notary of the episcopal curia during the century’s early years, to the priest Bartolomeo da Salimbecco, who was also an episcopal notary and the prebendary of the cathedral, to whom the deceased had left them in his will.50 These cases, and others that will undoubtedly emerge from as yet unpublished documentation, already make it possible to point to the will as the most effective instrument in the search for operational solutions that, without doing violence to established practices, could account for the need for institutions to exercise control over the documents drawn up by the notaries in their service. In this respect, the transfer of these special registers of imbreviaturae between professionals working for the same institution was a solution that made it possible to maintain that relationship of trust between notaries and their institution which ensured control and access to the documentation drawn up by the former even after their death or the end of their employment, thus making access to the documents, and with it control practices, easy and immediate. 214 48 “he does whatever he wants with these registers”, see Olivieri 2003, n. 142, p. 733. Other examples, also from the Piedmont area, are provided by the records of the Vercelli notary Bertolino Faldella, which contain documents pertaining to Aimone di Challant’s episcopate, 1273–1303, and those of the coeval notary and canon of Asti Ambrogio Vaca. See, respectively, Olivieri 2003, n. 15, p. 473 and Fissore 2003. 49 Mangini 2011, p. 73. 50 Cagnin 2004, note 28, p. 154.
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