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The history of the Archives reflects the secular affairs of the diocese and the oldest documents relating to the bishopric are stored in the form of loose-fit parchment in the \u00a0collection of the Canons of the Cathedral Chapter. Even the oldest register, from the mid-thirteenth century (drawn up by private notaries acting as the bishop’s clerks), is stored in the same archive. At the beginning of the 16th<\/sup> century, the archives gradually became the object of a separate organization (that of the diocesan curia), thus giving shape to authentic Episcopal Archives<\/strong> regarding the government of the diocese (i.e. pastoral visits, letters and synods). The body then branched out into various series relating to matters dealt with and the relevant offices.<\/p>\n During the episcopate of His Lordship Bishop Pier Luigi Speranza (1854-1879), most of the Chancellery documentation was reorganized into folders relating to the individual parishes, In the meantime, he singled out a particular corpus, the \u201cMensa Vescovile<\/strong>\u201d archives, an entity that managed the Bishop\u2019s property and revenues throughout the region. A first step in this direction was the compilation of the \u201cRotulum Episcopatus Bergomi\u201d (1258), which involved the recovery of scrolls front (up to 10th <\/sup>century), some of which are preserved in a Mensa parchment finding. Others – the majority – have been lost. Once the prerogatives of the Bishop’s assets were defined (property and perpetual census), the production began of a homogeneous background of registers and folders relating to the management of the patrimony, with documents from 14th<\/sup> to 19th <\/sup>century.<\/p>\n In the middle of 16th<\/sup> century the formation of an Ecclesiastical Court Archive<\/strong> seems to have developed, although the documentational reorganization undertaken \u200b\u200bin the mid-19th<\/sup> century has not always kept distinct registers related to this entity. A very limited part of the documentation of this file on 16th<\/sup> to 18th<\/sup> centuries has come down to us.<\/p>\n Besides the already mentioned parchment background, the Archive of the Canons of the Cathedral Chapter<\/strong> (conserved in the Diocesan Historical Archive, but only for the part until the end of 18th<\/sup> century) is comprised of multiple series paper, the result of merging into a single body (mid-16th<\/sup> century) the two cathedral archives of St. Alessandro and St. Vincenzo. The marriage of these two archives presents us with a synthetic inventory.<\/p>\n .<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The history of the Archives reflects the secular affairs of the diocese and the oldest documents relating to the bishopric are stored in the form of loose-fit parchment in the \u00a0collection of the Canons of the Cathedral Chapter. Even the oldest register, from the mid-thirteenth century (drawn up by private notaries acting as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":171,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions\/6807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiviostoricodiocesibg.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncontaining specific files of material (the most common being appointments of parish priests, benefices, sacristies, etc.), and later a similar approach was used for the documentation concerning other religious bodies in the diocese.<\/p>\n