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“Antichi” e “Moderni” nella Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova (R. Battocchio – M.C. Fazzini)
Article published in the journal “Padova e il suo territorio,” February 2011.
Stefano BATTISTON, La biblioteca dell’abate Giuseppe Furlanetto (1775-1848) al Seminario di Padova. Una collezione particolare di opere di epigrafia, numismatica, lessicografia ed archeologia (Report presented at D. Raines, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, 2013-2014.).
Diploma thesis at the Special School for Archivists and Librarians (Library Course) of the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” a.y. 2009-2010.
Nota bibliografica sul Seminario, la Biblioteca e la Tipografia (R. Battocchio – September 2005)
I. DANIELE – M. RESTIGLIAN – P. GIURIATI, Il Seminario di Padova (Quaderni di Cor Cordis, n. 1), 1997 (PDF File 5,5 MB).
Digitized copy of G. Valentinelli’s book, Della Biblioteca del Seminario di Padova, Venice 1849 (from books.google.it).
Giuseppe Valentinelli (1805-1874) directed the Seminary Library from 1837 to 1841, before moving to the Marciana Library.
On the occasion of the third centenary of the death of Saint Gregorio Barbarigo (June 18, 1697 – June 18, 1997), an exhibition was organized to illustrate various aspects of the Seminary’s history and life: “The Seminary of Gregorio Barbarigo. Three hundred years of faith, culture, and art.”
To download the exhibition guide:
- Reduced format PDF file (2MB): click here
- Original format PDF file (108MB): click here
Guida di Padova e della sua provincia. Coi tipi del Seminario. Padova 1842, pp. 248-249. 356-364 (sulla Chiesa di Santa Maria in Vanzo e sul Seminario).
This section does not include the bibliography related to the manuscripts of the Library (for which: click here).
- Giulia Orti, Lo studio delle raccolte per la conservazione (A.A. 2013-2014)
L’analisi del fondo antico della Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova.
Tesi di laurea, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Storia e gestione del patrimonio archivistico e bibliografico. Relatore: Carlo Federici. Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
The thesis is the result of an experimental study conducted on the collection of 16th-century printed books from the Library of the Bishop’s Seminary of Padua, which includes more than ten thousand editions. The study involved a detailed analysis, book by book, of the collection and the subsequent recording of the conservation anomalies identified in the individual volumes. To this end, the survey focused on damages to the structural components (cover, stitching, boards, and quadrants) as well as those affecting the paper. Particular attention was paid to identifying pages that showed color alterations, specifically the browning of the paper, using this factor as an indicator of degradation. All of this was related to the geographic and chronological context of the works’ production, allowing for the verification of the gradual decline in the quality of paper manufacturing in the 16th century.
- M. Aresu, La ricostruzione storica della biblioteca dei Carmelitani Scalzi di Padova (A.Y. 2014-2015)
Master’s thesis, Master’s Degree Course in History and Management of Archival and Bibliographic Heritage. Supervisor: Dorit Raines. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
The original catalog of the Library of the Discalced Carmelites of Padua, the main document of the thesis, is preserved, along with a group of books from the same library, in the Bishop’s Seminary of Padua. The thesis seeks to reconstruct, through a series of archival documents and general catalogs containing lists of books chosen by the libraries of religious corporations, where the library holdings were moved following the suppression of the Discalced Carmelites’ library.
- C. Federici – G. Orti, L’imbrunimento come criterio di qualità delle carte utilizzate nei libri a stampa dei secoli XV e XVI, in Gazette du livre médiéval, no. 61 (2014), pp. 55-67.This study presents data on the chemical degradation of the papers of the volumes preserved in the ancient section of the Library of the Bishop’s Seminary of Padua, in order to outline hypotheses regarding the choices of early printers, as well as the manufacture of paper in the 15th and 16th centuries in different European areas.
- L. Armstrong, La xilografia nel libro italiano del Quattrocento. Un percorso tra gli incunaboli del Seminario Vescovile di Padova (2015)
Translated by L. Mariani. Edited by P.M. Farina, EDUCatt, Milan.
The volume reintroduces Lilian Armstrong’s essay on the xylographically illustrated and printed incunabula of the Library, which accompanies the catalog of incunabula edited by P. Scapecchi, published in 2008. The text is supplemented by reproductions of examples from the collection. “The importance of the essay, in my opinion, can be summarized in three main points […]. First, it brings to light largely unpublished material demonstrating how the xylographically illustrated and printed incunabula in the collection are valuable and interesting examples. The second important finding is that for the first time, the illustrations of the Seminary’s books have been described in terms of their execution technique and iconography. […] The third point, perhaps the most important for any future research, is the close comparison that the scholar offers between the illustrations of the Seminary’s incunabula and other examples of the same editions or of other editions that use the same xylographs, present in the Padua collection or preserved in other libraries” (from the Foreword by Federica Toniolo).
- A. Zuin, Padova e il Corano, in Padova e il suo territorio, no. 175 (June 2015), pp. 23-25.
On the Latin translation of the Islamic sacred text by Father Ludovico Marracci, with the text in Arabic characters, printed at the Seminary’s Typographic Press (1698), the last great publishing endeavor of St. Gregorio Barbarigo.
- A. Zuin, Gregorio Barbarigo (1625-1697) e la sua inclinazione per l’arabico e altre lingue orientali (2015): Part-one – Part-two
- Gloria Griso, Le cinquecentine e le seicentine delle corporazioni soppresse conservate presso la Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova – Catalog of Provenance. Master’s thesis, Master’s Degree Course in History and Management of Archival and Bibliographic Heritage. Supervisor: Dorit Raines. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. A.Y. 2015-2016.
- P.G. Borbone, The Chaldean Business. The Beginnings of the East Syriac Typography and the Profession of Faith of Patriarch Elias (Vat. Ar. 83, ff. 117-126), in Miscellanesa Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae 20 (2014), pp. 211-258.
References to a “Note on Mother Types, Punches, and Oriental Characters” preserved in the Archive of the Seminary of Padua, Volume 122, p. 128; and to the essay on types, ornaments, and vignettes of the Typographic Press of the Seminary of Padua, Padua 1876.
- Lore Lotte Lievens, A Vaste Unknown Population. Parchment Bookbindings in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Master’s thesis. Master’s Degree Course in History and Management of Archival and Bibliographic Heritage. Supervisor: Carlo Federici. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. A.Y. 2016-2017.
Investigation into the evolution of the materials and techniques used in the production of parchment bookbindings for books of the 16th and 17th centuries in the Library of the Bishop’s Seminary of Padua. The study is conducted on a sample of over 5,000 volumes.
- Guglielmo Monetti, La querelle sul latino nel Settecento tra Parigi e Padova: D’Alembert and Clemente Sibiliato, in Latinitas 5 (2017), no. 2, pp. 101-122.
On a speech given in 1767 by Clemente Sibiliato (1719-1795), professor at the Seminary and the University of Padua.
- Jasmine Capovilla, Settecentine: dalle corporazioni religiose soppresse alla Biblioteca Antica del Seminario Vescovile di Padova. Master’s thesis. Master’s Degree Course in History and Management of Archival and Bibliographic Heritage. Supervisor: Dorit Raines. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. A.Y. 2016-2017.