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Support our appeal to help save the Pontifical Gregorian University's Archives, a collection of over 6,000 manuscripts. This includes important at-risk works that are in urgent need of conservation.

Today, your support —whatever its size— can make a real difference in many ways.

Make a donation	Adopt a manuscript	Become a Patron

Why donate?[edit]

The conservation of our historical memory may not be one of the pressing "emergencies" that dominate the headlines. Yet the loss, or the inability to consult, a unique manuscript—an irreplaceable object that can never be fully reproduced—results in a loss that is impossible to overstate: a fragment of history vanishes forever.

Our mission is to prevent the rupture in the material transmission of knowledge that has reached us through the centuries, and for which we are now responsible.

To address the vast number of unique documents in precarious condition, the APUG strongly advocated for the creation of an in-house restoration laboratory. Given the scale of the task, we need all the help we can get. Thanks to institutional grants and the generosity of individual donors, we have successfully conserved numerous codices in recent years.

The Historical Archives of the PUG approaches the valorisation of its collections as a complex, integrated process. This begins with daily preventive conservation and precise cataloguing, extends to specialised treatments for the consolidation and restoration of codices, and culminates in the digital publication of manuscripts to facilitate both scholarly research and public.

APUG 1446

F.C. 1000 bookbinding

APUG 830

How to Contribute[edit]

Conservation treatments: 200 euro for work on the binding to 3,000 euro for the restoration of a particularly complex codex.
Digital conversion and publication in GATE: 800 euros per manuscript and 15 euros per letter (for Correspondence projects)

These costs are indicative for outline interventions. If you wish to participate in a complete enhancement project, the benefactor will be invited to a presentation in which the costs will be detailed.

Bank transfer
Pontifical Gregorian University
Banca Monte dei Paschi.
Codice IBAN IT 58 Q 01030 03283 000061286515 - Codice BIC PASCITM1A25
Causale: Servizi Archivio Storico PUG.

PayPal
archivio@unigre.it

Reason : Donation to Historical Archives

Saved manuscripts[edit]

In the course of almost 10 years of work, numerous interventions have been carried out. Here are the most significant ones:

two volumes of the correspondence of Cristoforo Clavius and Galileo Galilei (APUG 529 and APUG 530). Together with other codices in the archive, some letters were presented on the occasion of the exhibition Magistri astronomiae from the 16th to the 19th century: Cristoforo Clavius, Galileo Galilei and Angelo Secchi;
drawings of obelisks and three unpublished codices by Athanasius Kircher;
Bernardino Stefonio’s theatrical works;
the almost 6,000 letters of correspondence of the scientist Angelo Secchi;
the Clavis prophetarum of Antonio Vieira
the unpublished manuscript Notae in Genesim (APUG 385b) by Roberto Bellarmino.
the spiritual manuscript of Girolamo Benci (XVI sec.) F.C. 1000

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-The '''names of the donors''' are listed in the manuscript file on this platform and in the Catalogue of Italian Manuscripts ([https://manus.iccu.sbn.it/cerca-biblioteche/-/bib/detail/120? MANUS Online] MANUS Online). Once the restoration of the codex is complete, a final event will take place in which donors and all contributors will be invited to participate.</div>
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+Support our appeal to help save the Pontifical Gregorian University's Archives, a collection of over 6,000 manuscripts. This includes important at-risk works that are in urgent need of conservation.
-Fundraising activities include paid visits. Every contribution collected is used for the conservation and restoration activities of the ''Diagnostic and Restoration Laboratory'' of the APUG.<br>
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+The conservation of our historical memory may not be one of the pressing "emergencies" that dominate the headlines. Yet the loss, or the inability to consult, a unique manuscript—an irreplaceable object that can never be fully reproduced—results in a loss that is impossible to overstate: a fragment of history vanishes forever.
+Our mission is to prevent the rupture in the material transmission of knowledge that has reached us through the centuries, and for which we are now responsible.
-The conservation and preservation of historical memory is not one of the 'emergencies', real or putative, that occupy the headlines. Nevertheless, the material loss or impossibility of consulting a manuscript - a unique object that can never be reproduced in its entirety - entails damage that is difficult to underestimate: a piece of history disappears forever.<br>
+To address the vast number of unique documents in precarious condition, the APUG strongly advocated for the creation of an in-house restoration laboratory. Given the scale of the task, we need all the help we can get. Thanks to institutional grants and the generosity of individual donors, we have successfully conserved numerous codices in recent years.
-Our aim is to prevent the interruption of the material transmission of centuries-old knowledge that has reached us and for which we are responsible.<br>
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-<p>In order to cope with a large number of unique documents that are in a poor state of preservation, the APUG strongly advocated the installation of an in-house restoration lab. Given the scope of the work, as much help as possible is needed. Thanks to institutional donations and the generosity of small donors, numerous codices have been saved over the past few years.</p>
-The Archivio Storico of PUG understands the valorisation of its fonds as a complex process in which practices such as daily and preventive conservation, cataloguing, special treatments for the partial or total consolidation of codices, the eventual restoration of the document, up to the putting online of the digitised manuscript to allow both critical study and scientific dissemination.<br>
+The Historical Archives of the PUG approaches the valorisation of its collections as a complex, integrated process. This begins with daily preventive conservation and precise cataloguing, extends to specialised treatments for the consolidation and restoration of codices, and culminates in the digital publication of manuscripts to facilitate both scholarly research and public.
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 * Trattamenti conservativi: da 200 euro per l'intervento sulla legatura a 3.000 euro per il restauro di un codice particolarmente complesso.<br>
 * Conversione in formato digitale e pubblicazione in GATE: 800 euro a manoscritto and 15 euro a lettera (per i progetti di Corrispondenze)<br>
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 I costi presentati sono indicativi per interventi di massima. Qualora si voglia partecipare a un progetto di valorizzazione completo il benefattore sarà invitato a una presentazione nella quale saranno dettagliati i costi. <br>
 [[File:Mail.svg|40px|left]] Per maggiori informazioni non esitate a contattare lo staff dell'archivio compilando il form a questa [https://www.unigre.it/it/archivio-storico/contatti-e-orari/ pagina]
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