Archives Visited by the Team
Over the years HOLYLAB team members have visited a vaste range of archives and repositories worldwide. Here they have identified unpublished and sometimes overlooked documents on the history of the Custody of the Holy Land that are at the core of present and future publications by the project.
Such sources focus on threee main areas of research, for which this page wants to provide more detail on the variety of archives and repositories used, with a layered map to emphasize their geographical span.
The Custody in Ottoman Jerusalem
The economic organization and evolution of the Custody between the 17th and 18th centuries are being unveiled through the records preserved in its own archive, while records from the Ottoman Justice Courts of Jerusalem, now kept in different repositories, document the life of the Franciscan community in its interactions outside the monastery, too.
- Historic Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land (Jerusalem)
- National Library of Israel (Jerusalem)
- Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library – University of Haifa (Haifa)
- The Center for Heritage Revival and Islamic Research (Abu Dis)
- Research Centre For Islamic History, Art and Culture – IRCICA (Istanbul)
- İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi’ – ISAM (Istanbul)
- The Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (Istanbul)
Commissariats of the Holy Land
Documentation on the history of Franciscan Commissariats in the early modern period can be found first and foremost in the archive of the Papal Congregation of Propaganda Fide. The papers of other institutions have also proven rich in this respect, including unexpected places such as papal nunciatures or civic financial institutions.
- Historic Archive of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People or “De Propaganda Fide” (Vatican City)
- Vatican Apostolic Archive (Vatican City), fondi Ordini religiosi, Francescani; Nunziature Vienna
- State Archive of Genoa (Genoa), fondo Carte di enti religiosi soppressi
- Historic Archive of the Franciscan Order in Genoa (formerly the Franciscan Commissariat of Genoa) (Genoa)
- Franciscan Commissariat of Lombardy (Milan)
- Archive of the Franciscan Province of Sant’Antonio dei Frati Minori in Lombardy (Milan)
- State Archive of Venice (Venice), fondi Pannocchieschi d’Elci; Consultori in Jure; S. Francesco della Vigna
- Archive of the Franciscan Province of Sant’Antonio dei Frati Minori in Veneto (Venice), fondo Terra Santa
- Historic Archive of the Franciscan Province of San Francesco Stimmatizzato (formerly the Franciscan Commissariat of Tuscany) (Florence), fondo Provincia di San Bonaventura, Archivi Aggregati, Commissariato di Terra Santa di Livorno
- State Archive of Florence (Florence), fondo Tribunale della Nunziatura di Firenze
- Franciscan Commissariat of Naples (Naples)
- Archive of the Franciscan Province of Santissimo Cuore di Gesù (Naples)
- State Archive of Naples (Naples)
- Historic Archive of the Fondazione Banco di Napoli (Naples)
- Franciscan Commissariat of Lisboa (Lisboa)
- Archivo Histórico Nacional (Madrid), fondo Obra Pía de los Santos Lugares
- Archives Nationales de France (Paris), fondo Marine
- Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv (Vienna)
- Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Haus-, Allgemeines Verwaltungsarchiv – Finanz- und Hofkammerarchiv (Vienna)
- Franciscan Commissariat of Austria (Vienna)
- Landesarchiv of Lower Austria (St Pölten)
The Custody and Other Institutions
When reconstructing the normative and practical context around the collection and shipment of alms to the Holy Land, significant documents can be identified in the archives and repositories of religious and civic institutions of the time, from the Franciscan Order at large to diocese and civic chanceries.
- Historic Archive of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People or “De Propaganda Fide” (Vatican City)
- Archive of the General Curia of the Franciscan Order (Rome), fondo Missioni – Terra Santa
- Archive of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (Vatican City / Rome), fondo Acta circa indulgentias
- Saint Isidore’s College (Rome), fondo Archivio Luca Wadding
- Fondazione Biblioteca San Bernardino (Trento)
- State Archive of Venice (Venice), fondi Senato, Dispacci, Dispacci dei consoli, Aleppo; Miscellanea Atti Diversi Manoscritti; Giudici dell’Esaminador, Mandati di Zecca; Collegio, Esposizioni Roma; Consultori in Jure
- State Archive of Verona (Verona), fondo Atti dei Rettori Veneti
- Archive of the Diocese of Verona (Verona), fondo Atti della Cancelleria