Biblioteca Vallicelliana
The Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome traces its origins back to Filippo Neri .
history
The first news about the library comes from 1581, when Achille Stazio bequeathed 1700 printed books and 300 manuscripts in his will, and in 1586 archives and books from San Giovanni in Venere were added. After Neri's death in 1595, his books were added to the inventory. In 1607, after the death of Cesare Baronio , part of his library came to the Valicelliana. An important part of the collection goes back to Leone Allacci . The 372 volumes from Filippo Neri's possession are still kept together in the libraria in the historic, monumental reading room (Sala Borromini) of the building that Francesco Borromini built in the mid-17th century. Until 1873 the Vallicelliana was the library of the Oratorians , since then it has been one of the state libraries in Rome.
In 1883 the Società Romana di Storia Patria , founded in 1876, was housed in some rooms of the library and was entrusted with the management and scientific supervision of the society. The presidents of the society also took over the office of director of the Vallicelliana: Oreste Tommasini from 1884 to 1900, Ugo Balzani from 1901 to 1907 and Carlo Calisse from 1907 to 1923. His successor Emilio Pecorini Manzoni , who came out of the librarianship and the library from November 1923 to October 1941, was a member of the company's scientific advisory board and remained active for it even after retirement. In 1946 this institutional connection between the two institutions was dissolved, even if the spatial proximity persists. The library management of the Società's book collections was entrusted to Vallicelliana.
Duration
The library now has around 130,000 volumes, including 3,000 manuscripts and 10,000 Cincquecentine (prints from the 16th century). The previous owners of the 134 Greek codices from the 8th to 18th centuries, some of them of Italian-Greek origin, include Guglielmo Sirleto and Fulvio Orsini .
The manuscript E 26, a computist composite manuscript with texts by Beda Venerabilis , in which there is a handwritten entry by Agobard of Lyon, Ms. B 6 is an Alcuin Bible, dates from the early 9th century . An example of the more sophisticated book-making in the Renaissance , which is well represented in the library, is Ms. E 39 from the 15th century with De re rustica des Columella .
79 of the Carte Vallicelliane , a collection of documents of various origins that came to the library at different times, were made available as digital copies in Monasterium.net . The oldest documents of the inventory are the diplomas of Heinrich III. of 1047 and Henry VI. from 1195 for San Giovanni in Venere.
literature
- Giulia Bologna : Manoscritti e miniature. Il libro prima di Gutenberg . Milan 1988, p. 180
Web links
- Library homepage
- Information on the library at the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italian)
- The Vallicelliana in internet culturale.
- List of directors from 1884 at AIB-WEB
- Publications on the Vallicelliana and its holdings in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
Remarks
- ↑ 57 manuscripts are available in digitized form in the BIM - Bibliotheca Italica Manuscripta project
- ↑ Digitized version in the project Bibliothèque Nahrungsmittel des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM) of the IRHT
- ↑ Catalog in Manus online
- ↑ Entry in Manus online; a canon table as an example.
- ^ Virtual presentation of an exhibition in 2002.
- ^ Fund: Carte Vallicelliane (description of the holdings in Italian) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
- ↑ DH III 185
- ↑ Regesta Imperii IV, 3 n. 436 ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
