Adopt a manuscript
How to Contribute
- Support a Conservation Treatment
- A minor treatment: 200€ (e.g., restoring a binding)
- A major project: from 5.000€ (e.g., the full restoration of a codex)
- Digital Conversion & GATE Publication:
- • Manuscript: 800 €
- • Letter (Correspondence): 15 €
Costs are estimates for standard work. We invite potential benefactors of full enhancement projects to a personal consultation for a detailed proposal".
Bank transfer
Pontifical Gregorian University
Banca Monte dei Paschi.
Codice IBAN IT 58 Q 01030 03283 000061286515 - Codice BIC PASCITM1A25
Payment reference field: Digitize and publish.
In return, you will
- Receive a special Gregorian Archives Certificate
- Updates on the progress of the conservation work
- Once the restoration of the codex is complete, a final event will be held, to which donors and all contributors will be invited.
Choose the manuscript
The manuscript listed below are particularly at risk and are in urgent need of conservation.
- St. Robert Bellarmine Disputatione de controversiis.
The Historical Archive of the Pontifical Gregorian University holds the manuscripts of one of its most emblematic works: the Controversies. These manuscripts, all in the hand of Cardinal Bellarmine (1542–1621), were drafted over many years and feature numerous revisions. Bellarmine wrote the volumes while lecturing on controversial theology at the Roman College between 1576 and 1587. After some initial, incomplete editions, the revised work was first published in its entirety by the author in Venice in 1596. The success of the work—which represents an attempt to systematize the major theological controversies of the period—is evidenced by its numerous subsequent editions.
Link to the Restoration Project
