Donate
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.
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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.
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]
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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
