Winter Workshop "The Archives of the Holy See: an Introduction", Rome, 20th -24th January 2020" (original) (raw)

The Promise of the Vatican Library, University of Notre-Dame 2016, pp. pp. 16-19, 28-31, 32-35.

On three manuscripts: Lorenzo Valla, Declamatio on the Donation of Constantine, 15th century, Vat. lat. 5314 (with Clementina Marsico), Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Vat. lat. 3195; Albertus Magnus, commentarium in Aristotelis Parva Naturalia, Vat. lat. 718

The Vatican Apostolic Library’s Digital Preservation Project

2017

Preservation, conservation and free consultation are the main principles of the Vatican Apostolic Library from its inception, in the middle of the XV century. Precisely in compliance with this role, a project of long-term digital preservation began in 2010. The challenges encountered were twofold: on the one hand, the guarantee of the longevity of the technological product obtained and on the other, enabling for the dissemination of the Vatican Library’s manuscripts in a networking digital library. The continuous cooperation between the Photographic, Preservation and Conservation and Information Technology Sections of the Vatican Library was a prerequisite and has been fundamental for maintaining the high quality of the whole process. This paper will focus on three main areas: 1.The workflow begins in the Preservation and Conservation Workshop. During these years of experience, the conservators have carefully defined the discernment/standard needed for the first selection of the vol...

Milani, G., & Antonelli, A. (2024). The Popolo’s Room. Describing Medieval Archives Through a Fourteenth Century Bologna Inventory.

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10: 8, pp. 1–12, 2024

This article presents a dataset derived from a medieval archive inventory preserved in the State Archives of Bologna, the Liber seu memoriale of 1324. This source, resulting from the reorganization of an important portion of the archives of the ancient city commune, describes all the documents produced during the administrations of 54 different capitani del popolo, the foreign officers who, along with the podesta, governed the city, changing every six months. It offers a comprehensive view of the archival material produced by these officers from 1281 to 1308 and helps in understanding Italian city archives of the Middle Ages.