By adopting a book, your donation will ensure that it is restored to a correct condition in our in laboratory, safe for researchers for years to come.
How to Contribute
- Conservation treatments: 200 euro for work on the binding to 5,000 euro for the restoration of a codex. There are also special projects linked to a manuscript set such as the Bellarmine Collection, the Council of Trent Found, or the Jesuit Correspondence Collection.
- 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.
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 take place in which donors and all contributors will be invited to participate.
Choose the manuscript
The manuscript listed below are particularly at risk and are in urgent need of conservation.
Please choose the manuscript you wish to adopt from the selection:
- St. Robert Bellarmine Disputatione de controversiis.
The Historical Archive of the PUG preserves copies of one of its most emblematic works, the Controversies. The drafting of the manuscripts lasted years and presents numerous revisions always by the hand of Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621).
Bellarmine wrote these volumes while giving lectures on Controversy (1576-1587) at the Roman College. After the first incomplete editions, the work saw the light with revisions by the author in 1596 in Venice. The success of this work, which represents the attempt to systematize the various theological controversies of the time, is documented by numerous subsequent editions.
Link to the Restoration Project (Reserved access).
