Papers relating to the University in other Turin archives

At least six other important Turin cultural institutions conserve, for reasons of historical-institutional development, University papers relating to its most ancient history and beyond.

The Archive of the Archbishop's Curia of Turin preserves the oldest degree documents, from the fifteenth century, which are found in no particular order, among various types of deeds, in the notarial protocols. Irma Naso wrote in depth in volumes about the events of the first two centuries of the University's life Alma Felix Universitas Studii Taurinensis (2004) e Insignia Doctoralia (2008).

The State Archives of Turin it houses considerable documentation relating to the creation and functioning of the Royal University, other institutes of higher education and various cultural institutions between the 13th and the mid-19th century, as well as what survived the bombing in 1942 of the papers already preserved by the university archives and transferred to the United Sections.

The Archive of the City of Turin can offer, in series Loose papers e Ordered, indispensable sources for the study of the first three centuries of the University's life, when the Municipality hosted the University in a building it owned between via Doragrossa and via dello Studio (now via Garibaldi and via San Francesco d'Assisi) and provided for the payment of salaries, as well as nineteenth-twentieth century funds which document the collaboration between city and state administration in the management of university activity. Of particular interest is also the Simeom collection, in which, among other things, a precious list of graduates of the University of Turin from the seventeenth century survives, taken from the original registers, now lost.

At the National University Library the ancient printed degree theses are deposited, starting from 1738 until the 1860s, when the responsibility for conservation passed from the Library to the University Secretariat. Of these, the theses up to 1830 have been the subject of a computerized cataloging project and can now be searched in the online catalogue. The same National Library also preserves numerous handouts, a register of graduates in architecture (1809-1813) and an index of civil and hydraulic architecture drawings (1723-1861) attributable to degree exams, partially preserved by the University Archives.

Of considerable interest and value are also papers and manuscripts of illustrious personalities who taught at the University of Turin, such as those of Amedeo Avogadro and Giovanni Plana at theAcademy of Sciences and the personal archive of Carlo Promis, deposited in the mid-twentieth century at the Royal Library. The latter also includes in its heritage two manuscript lists of graduates in Theology, Law and Medicine between 1720 and 1760.

Finally, a particular case is constituted by the careers of engineers and architects, who were trained at the University of Turin until the establishment of the Royal School of Application for Engineers in 1859. For research on the subsequent period, please refer to the archives of Polytechnic of Turin (born in 1906 from the merger of the School of Application with the Royal Industrial Museum of Turin).