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Mgr Testa took over the archive of the Apostolic Delegation after his entry to Jerusalem, on 18 June, 1948. The archive contains 38 folders concerning the administrations of the Apostolic Delegates Gustavo Testa, Arthur Hughes, Silvio Oddi and Giuseppe Sensi. The documentation covers the period 1935-1962. The documentation concerning the government of Mgr Valerio Valeri has been lost in 1948 when the palace of the Apostolic Delegation was destroyed. A well-structured filing plan is available for the government of Testa, Oddi and Sensi. The archive is accessible until 1939.

This archival fonds contains documents from 1839 to 1935, although some of them date before this period. Most part of the archives of pontifical representations started to arrive to Vatican since the mid Seventies of the 20th century.
During the cataloguing, the fonds was divided into “Archivio Antico”; “Archivio mons. Cassulo” e “Archivio mons. Valeri-Mazzoli-Bartoloni-Dini”. The last one is composed by 101 dossiers.

Structure of the fonds: global extent: 62 files; 9 July 1617 - 28 Feb. 1977
Series A, Manuals. Global extent: 1 file; 5 Sept. 1733 - Feb. 1849
Series B, Holy Masses. Global extent: 8 files; 1st May 1853 - 31 May 1974
B-I, "Pro populo" masses. Global extent: 3 files; 1st May 1853 - 25 Dec. 1936
B-II, Masses dedicated to parishioners (“ad intentionem parochi”). Global extent: 5 files; 2 Jan. 1950 - 31 May 1974
Series C, Sacraments registers. Global extent: 33 files; 9 July 1617 - [Post 1960]
C-I, Mixed registration [Registration of births, marriages and deaths]. Global extent: 1 file; 4 Jan. 1906 - 26 Dec. 1906
C-II, Baptisms. Global extent: 6 files; 9 July 1617 - 25 Dec. 1938
C-III, Reconciled. Global extent: 1 file; 27 Feb. 1858 - 3 Oct. 1913
C-IV, Weddings (nuptials). Global extent: 3 files; 1732 - 14 Jan. 1911
C-V, Sacraments to sick people and pregnant women (“ad ammalati e partorienti”). Global extent: 5 files; 25 Sept. 1954 - 23 May 1962
C-VI, Deaths. Global extent: 2 files; 4 Jan. 1906 - 30 Dec. 1922
C-VII, Parish family books (latin "Status animarum", meaning "State of Souls"). Global extent: 15 files; 1836 - [Post 1960]
Series D, Correspondence. Global extent: 12 files; 31 Oct. 1729 - [1970ca.]
D-I, Marriages. Global extent: 3 files; 31 Oct. 1729 - 17 Nov. 1953
D-II, Miscellanea. Global extent: 9 files; 20 May 1835 - [1970ca.]
Series E, Charities. Global extent: 3 files; Feb. 1885 - Dec. 1954
Series F, Chronicles. Global extent: 4 files; [1935ca.] - 28 Feb. 1977
Series G, Archives from the Pious Union of St. Anthony. Global extent: 1 file; 23 Sept. 1894 - 12 June 1921

Documents of German consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa, including records of relations with the Ottoman authorities, tax matters, the acquisition of property, Jewish immigration, civil and criminal cases, representation of German interests by the Spanish Consulate (1917‒1926), and a variety of other subjects. Collection reflects Germany’s takeover of the Austrian Consulate in 1938.

Only the remnants from the archives of the consulate in Jerusalem from the years 1842-1939 (including several files of the Austrian consulate which were turned over to the German consulate upon the annexion of Austria in march 1938) are described here, but the fonds also contains remnants from the archives of the Jaffa consulate (1870-1917) and the Haifa consulate (1877-1918).

To be completed.

The record groups and documents listed here are:

• archives which are not related to a fonds or a collection;
• archives which fonds or collection are not known by the teams of the Open Jerusalem and Archival City projects.

The Archival City project does not know the composition of the whole fonds and its tree structure.

The Central Zionist Archives – the official archives of the institutions of the Zionist Movement (the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, and the United Israel Appeal) and the numerous institutions that were established by, or alongside, these bodies – permanently preserves the files that were created during the activity of these institutions.

In addition, the Zionist Archives holds the files of the institutions of the Jewish population in Palestine before the establishment of the State (the Archives of the National Council, the Archives of the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), the Archives of the Hadassah Medical Organization, etc.), of the offices of the World Jewish Congress in various countries, the remainder of the Archives of the Hovevei Zion and of some of the Zionist Federations around the world.

Language of registration of the record group names: Hebrew and English (See the Record Group Guide)

Language of registration of the files: The descriptions of most of the files in the various record groups are in Hebrew. However, if most of the original documents in the files of the record group are in English, the file descriptions are in English. Most of the file titles (about 80%) are in Hebrew.