Report to the Right Honourable the Master of the Rolls Upon the Documents in the Archives and Public Libraries of Venice - Couverture souple
Présentation de l'éditeur
These frequent applications occupy much time and a Jdto the of Hcial labour, the amount of which can only be appreciated by seeinor the numerous documents and collections preserved at Venice. Moreover, considerable expense is incurred by Mr. Brown in paying for transcripts. 4.- As in the preface to the first volume of his Venetian Calendar, Mr. Brown has given a very detailed account of all the Archives and Collections at Venice, it will be unnecessary for me to travel again over the same ground. I shall therefore confine my remarks to the National Archives in the Frari, the Marcian Library, and Correr Museum; which depositories I my self examined as carefully as 1could during the limited period 1remained in Venice. 5. The ex-convent of the Franciscans, commonly called the Frari, was established as the National A rchive, by an Imperial Decree, in the year 1817. It is impossible to go over this establishment without being amazed, not only at its extent, but at the extraordinary order and neatness which prevail throughout the 300 rooms appropriated to the National A rchive?. Several of these rooms are of great extent, and veiy lofty. The smallest is much larger than a goodsized chamber in England. The documents are placed on shelves rising from the floor to the ceiling, occupying nearly 18,000 feet in clear run. In many of the rooms, the papers are arranged in double rows, and in each room there is a catalogue of the papers in the bundles, so that any particular document can be instantly produced. No general catalogue of the whole A rchives, however, has been compiled. I had an opportunity of testing the facility of the access afforded to applicants, and I was surpnsed at the rapidity with which several papers deposited in distant parts of the building were produced by Signer Luigi Pasini, a most zealous and efficient officer. This establishment is under the c
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