KPMG donates €15,000 for restoration of notarial archives documents

The Notarial Archives Resource Council has received €15,000 from professional services company KPMG Malta for the conservation of significant volumes at the notarial archives

14 October 2016, 9:18am
by Jeanelle Mifsud

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KPMG partners Pierre Portelli and Tonio Zarb present €15,000 donation to Notarial Archives Resource Council President Joan Abela and chief notary to government Keith German

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Professional services company KPMG Malta has donated €15,000 towards the conservation of significant volumes at the notarial archives, the Notarial Archives Resource Council said in a statement this morning.

The council said that the notarial archives house over 20,000 notarial registers and other historic manuscripts spanning a period of 600 years.

It added that the first volume selected to undergo conservation treatment belongs to the acts of notary Graziano Vassallo, who is said to have received his warrant to practise as a notary public in Malta after being successfully examined in Sicily by Protonotarius Mariano Aglata on 18 August 1483. “In 1492, together with his brother, who was also a notary, Vassallo and his brother Mattheo were responsible for the defence of the island,” the council said.

This volume adopted by KPMG in Malta through the Adopt a Notary scheme contains original copies of wills from the acts of Notary Vassallo dating from 1483 to 1546. It also contains a list of judges of the Civil Court of Mdina from 1483 to 1547.